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Comparison of the Moral Status of Fetus's and Animals.
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Philosophy 230: Comparison of the Moral Status of Fetus's and Animals Devin Pratt #0131759 Essay #2 March 26th, 2003 What is important when comparing the moral status of things is to first have a good definition of what gives a thing moral status, and then see to what degree these requirements are filled. At the bare-bones level, we can say that a thing has moral status if we can label things done to it as good or bad. This does not mean that we can call actions done to it good or bad for the sake of the actions themselves, or for us, but rather for the thing itself. So the thing must have the faculty for judging some things as good and some things as bad for itself. It is obvious that we cannot know for certain whether or not a thing is reacting to what it considers good...
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