Ethics and Values / Unit 4 Ethics 175 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Partiality Objection
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The idea
The partiality objection: counting everyone for one forbids favoring your own child over a stranger, and a morality that forbids that has lost touch with human life.
In practice
Two children need the last dose; one is yours. The dictum says flip a coin. Almost no parent thinks the coin is morality.
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