Keywords
Dworkin
global hunger
moral priorities
civil harmony
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Abstract
This essay relates the struggle to eradicate world hunger to the battle over abortion. It criticizes the Dworkin’s defense of the legality of abortion, by presenting arguments those in both sides of the abortion debate (pro-election and pro-life) to spend their time and resources in the fight against world hunger instead of the abortion battle, in which both sides could work together. In the fight over whether and to what extent abortions should be legal, great expenditures of effort are merely neutralizing each other. Fighting world hunger is much less wasteful, and less costly for civil harmony and for the standing of morality in our culture. Various counter-arguments invoking considerations of cost-effectiveness, or the distinctions between doing and letting happen or between compatriots and foreigners can be refuted.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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