How to Write Better Essays

A Carnivore’s Credo

Frey

Vietnam friend

pain

Does this involvea narrow defin.of pain i.e. just

physical?exceptions

He’s quite capableof experiencing

emotional pain– anxiety, stress,

insecurity



pain

π

just

physical

Does he, in himself, really

have interests as Frey claims?

exception

When others take over responsib.of protecting your ints for youw/o you having direct interestsin yourself – friends/relatives

take on your ints by proxy

We only have ints in thesense that we are hurtwhen we discover what

people unfairly say about us



We have ints when we don’tknow what’s happening onlyto the extent that it’s themoral concern of friends/relsto correct it just in case we

get to know

What you don’t

know can’t hurt you

exception

your damaged reputat’nmight still mean you’rehurt by others havingnothing to do with you =respons. of friends/relatsto protect your interests



Frey wrong in arguing he does have interests

in himself – interests

=

proxy

Karen Quinlan

Same qn: does she possess ints in

herself?exception

Her interests are protected by proxye.g. parents – courts who become

legal guardians – someone who

thinks for the patient – as the patient

w’ld herself

llel

=

environment & our respons.

to protect it

it cannot‘Know’

cannotfeel pain

i.e.

pain

=

sufficient to

have interests

but

π

a necessary condition

of having them

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