Question

1. Describe Warren’s thought experiment with the space explorer who is captured by alien scientists. What point is Warren trying to make with this thought experiment?
2. Explain Thomson’s famous “unconscious violinist” thought experiment. What is this thought experiment supposed to show about abortion?
3. How, according to Lee and George, could someone argue that abortion is justified as nonintentional killing? What do they think is wrong with this argument?

Answer 1

Warren's thought experiment consists of a space explorer analogy . This involves a space explorer who gets captured by the aliens .Aliens want to make clones of the space explorer .The only way to stop this is to escape . Warren says that he has not obligation to stay there with the aliens . Warren also says that if the cloning process is already started he has no obligation to stay even if the clones die . similarly if the process is fast and does not have consequences to him he still has no obligation .

Through this experiment Warren wants to says that the rights which are present there for the actual person easily outweigh the the rights of the potential person which are clones on the analogy . When we compare this with the abortion we can say that women rights are more inmportant that then fetus who is still in a developing state or a potential perosn .