The Doctrine of Double Effect - Explained & Debated 

Exactly. It's an entirely emotional and subjective doctrine

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You're a wise individual.

K, what if a medication is produced unethically, but it could be produced otherwise. So it's not the mechanism of the drug that's wrong, but where they derived the cell lines (aborted babies let's say). Should we die to not use it?

@@auntieanna Good question. That brings up the classic philosophical question testing utilitarianism by asking if a doctor should kill the sickest person in the hospital so their organs can be used to save 5 others. It significantly improves the lives of 5 out of 6 people so it is a very utilitarian thing to do but, for obvious reasons, the means to achieve the end is abhorrent to most people. Your example of abortion is trickier because a significant number of people do not consider terminating an embryo in the first trimester the same as ending the life of a conscious person. To answer your question, in a civilized society, it would probably be considered uncouth to trade an unwilling life for a life (or even bring significant harm to an unwilling life), but in a survival situation, that answer would change. What do you think? Did your question have more nuance that I missed?

@AndyAlegria well, it can be more nuanced. This is real time for me..... Biologic drugs are made using mammalian ovary antibodies and then "humanized", but the manufacturers won't disclose further info, though I can find evidence suggesting they are using embryonic material. I already almost died once because i wouldn't use it, but ended up on a sugeons table and am still here. I'm hemmoraging again. The added mental block is that, as a very dedicated/transformed Christian, I believe our bodies to be the Temple of God, and even the mammalian cell line are "unclean" & "abominable". I can try another surgery, with potentially serious complications instead.... though, even the drugs aren't with potential side effects, it's far less intrusive. Six kids that I homeschool. It's hard to find thinkers who donate their time & brain power. Thankyou.

@@auntieanna I agree with you that kids, on average, are not “thinkers” with “brain power”. :) Thank you for your service as a teacher. You said you have an aversion to the mammalian cell line in drugs. I assume you eat animal meat (lots of animal cells), get the flu shot (which often involves eggs), and use vitamins for you or your kids (many of which are extracted from animals, such as omega 3, B12, and D)? Unless you are vegan, you are already putting animal products into your body, so what is the difference between the products above and the animal-sourced drugs you are rejecting because they are “abominable” (leaving the embryonic material aside for now)? Your main objection is the use of “embryonic material” (I’m assuming embryonic stem cells). If you believe that human life - that is worthy of protection by all laws regarding human life - begins at conception, the destruction of embryos (such as those at in vitro fertilization clinics) is murder, and you do not have the right to kill a protected human (embryo) without their consent to save your own life (or profit off their death caused by someone else), then you are logically justified in refusing the medicine because the argument is valid. I do not believe the argument is sound since I disagree with the first premise regarding full protection of embryos under law. If you have a question about your stance, I’m curious which of your premises YOU think might not be sound.

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@@beatleswithaz6246 according to science, even cockroaches have a lot more value in nature than mankind cockroaches help trap nitrogen in the soil which is necessary for the growth of trees nature with lesser trees means hell if cockroaches were to extinct, it *would also* be lesser food for wasps, lesser wasps means more insects becuz wasps eat insects, too many insects would be nothing but trouble for everybody in nature in summary, everybody in nature would miss cockroaches soo much meanwhile if humans were to extinct in nature? everybody in nature ain't gonna miss em

in summary, mankind has no actual value in nature. humans are worth lesser than even cockroaches

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