Hare on potentiality: a rejoinder.
Lockwood M.
KIE: Richard Hare's comment on an article by Lockwood in Bioethics (article and comment appeared in 1988 Jul; 2(3): 187-213, 214-226) pinpoints their crucial disagreement over the extent to which one is entitled to sacrifice the potential for worthwhile life of individuals whose actuality is already an established fact. Lockwood argues that, even though we can all feel gratitude toward our parents for our existence, the obligation one has towards an actual individual not to prevent his or her own potentiality for human life from being realized is far stronger than any obligation one has to bring into existence, or not to prevent from coming into existence, an otherwise merely possible individual with a similar potentiality.
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