#darkholepl

So there is this obsession with controling others life.

I suspect it derives of the frustration - if you believe you cannot achieve hapiness on you own you can only feel better by putting others down or by forcing “hapiness” on others.

Two days ago Polish far right obsession with controling others life have resulted in nearly total ban on abortion.

Arguments against abortion reffer to appeal to emotions metaphysical giberrish about personhood and “diginity of human being”. However it is a confusion. Even if embrion is human it is not necessairly person. Being a person implies at least capacity for cognition. Embrio doesn;t have brain. If we assume that we cannot abort living cells even if they dont have brains - then we also dont have right to remove tumors and parasites. It makes no sense to apply such a worldview.

Anti-choice madmen argue that child may not have capacity to think now but it will have it in future.

And here comes Violonist thought experiment of Judith Jarvis Thomson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion

Lets say to go to sleep. You wake up in hospital bed, connencted through tube to unconcious Violinist. He is sustaining himself only through connection to your body. If you unplug yourslelf during next 9 months he will die.  Violinist is unable of cognition now but will be able when he wakes up later on. He is certainly a person. BUT so are You.

Do you not have right to decide on yourslelf and unplug so you can live your life ?

I would extend Judith Thompson’s experiment to fit current reality of Polish hellhole. What if Violonist wakes up after 9 months and needs you constant care - wipping a**, feeding, washing - THROUGH REST OF YOUR LIFE ?

What if he will BE DEING SEVERAL YEARS in EXTRUCIATING AGONY of PAIN IN YOUR HANDS ?

Are you really morally obliged to waste your life for someone else life - just for that person can live in agony and misery ?