It’s not cannibalism, but an essay on this practice notes that “the certainties postulated by philosophers hardly ever exist” when analogizing it to the case of shipwrecked sailors Dudley and Stephens. Kitty Genovese’s murder is used to make a distinction between “Good,” “Splendid,” and “Minimally Decent” Samaritans in an essay on this practice. An essay titled for this practice describes an analogy of seeds floating through windows and taking root in houses. This practice is paired with “the Doctrine of Double Effect” in the title of an essay by Philippa Foot that proposed the trolley problem. An essay on this practice proposes a thought experiment involving keeping a dying violinist alive. For 10 points, Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote a “Defense” of what practice opposed by pro-life activists? ■END■
ANSWER: abortion [accept equivalents such as ending or terminating a pregnancy; accept “A Defense of Abortion”; accept “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect”]
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