"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Parenting

This was not an article I found, I watched this ethical issue on a tv show and I really wanted to use it as an example. A mother cooks meth in her house with her small child and her husband. The husband is unaware that the mother is doing this. The father walks out of the house and the house blows up because the mother was cooking meth on the kitchen stove. The father saves both and brings them to the hospital. The mother was severely burnt and is going to die. The father finds out that the reason the house blew up was because the mother was cooking meth. The mother only has several minutes left to live and the father refuses to let the daughter see her mother before she dies.

P1. The house blew up because the mother was cooking meth in the kitchen.
P2. The mother puts the daughter in danger.
C. The mother does not deserve to see the daughter before she dies.

Deductive Strong Uncogent

Was the father right to not let the daughter see her mother before she died ?

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