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Abortion and infanticide - Potentiality Principle
 
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This proves claim (i) (Tooley, 1972). Tooley's Argument for Claim (ii) To prove claim (ii), Tooley attacked the potentiality principle. He first described a general situation in which there exists an action A which initiates process C and action B which stops process C. He then claimed that there is no moral difference between intentionally doing action B and intentionally refraining from performing action A as long as the motivation is identical for both...
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He called this the "moral symmetry principle". As a disclaimer, Tooley said that for the purposes of his argument, he would limit his discussion to cases where action B should require minimal effort to do. He stated this limitation to avoid confusion when dealing with scenarios when action B requires much more effort and sacrifice than not doing action A...
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