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Quotes from Projeto de Ética Negativa — Julio Cabrera

Argentina

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Killing someone and giving birth to someone are two violent actions through which, magically, man tries to put himself in God’s place. The victim of a homicide is always helpless, but never as helpless as the victim of a birth. There is as much innocent blood spilled in a childbirth as in a homicide. If procreation is a free choice, then life is fundamentally unnecessary pain.

Projeto de Ética Negativa (1989)

If freedom, according to traditional morality itself, is a fundamental ethical value, the very basis of ethics, one must be aware that the creation of a child may be the first huge disrespect of the freedom of the human person. The issue of freedom suffers here from the same problem as the issue of pain: it is a matter of ethical value that the traditional affirmative ethics is unable to radicalize.

Projeto de Ética Negativa (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julio Cabrera (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.