For each question you will be asked whether a given statement is necessarily true or not and to explain why it is so. As Rachels admits, most actual cases of killing are morally worse than most actual cases of letting die. From November 10-14, we considered twelve moral principles which could account for why it is wrong to let the child die in The Shallow Pond but not in The Envelope. I will put three of these principles on the overhead projector, and you will be asked to provide a counter-example to each. The counter-examples you provide needn't be original.
Singer claims that all animals are equal.
Assume that chickens are not self-aware. Assume that free-range chickens have lives worth living. Assume, finally, that for economic reasons we could not rear the birds if we did not eat them. Killing an innocent human being is prima facie wrong. A fetus is an innocent human being.