You're listening to Partially Examined Life episode 301 Part 2.

We've been discussing Judith the Jarvis Thompson's A Defense of Abortion in 1971, and we have

a couple other articles that we will definitely get to here.

Wes was talking about altruism and the ponds thing and Dylan brought up this COVID example

The one thing that I was just going to add to Wes's comment was Thompson.

She has this distinction of the indecent and the unjust and the unjust ends up being the

line by which you would be able to force an action.

So an obligation becomes an action that would be of moral force.

Indicent is something short of that where it falls into the category.

It would be frightfully nice of you to do x-wire say, for instance, in the violinist example,

it would be noble or decent or kind of you to say, no, prop, I'm totally good.

I'm glad to be saving the violin this life.

I've kind of irritated that I got kidnapped in the middle of the night and this is going

to irritate me in my life.

But I get it.

What's done is done.

I'll hang out here for nine months.

That falls in the category of being decent.

But the line that gets turned over is just versus unjust.

I become a little bit confused at the end where it's not clear that there aren't cases

that she was earlier labeling as questions of decency and not questions of justice.

Don't become questions of justice.

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