A school district and local prosecutors in Texas are refusing to drop charges against an 11-year-old who was held in solitary confinement.

Timothy Murray lost his father earlier this year and had been asking his principal for counseling when she called in the police

  • blackstampede@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I strongly suspect that you are fishing for a specific response, which you find absurd despite ultimately accepting all the premises.

    I’m not. I thought you were pretty clear, but I wanted to check. I’m sort of exploring what you believe, rather than fishing for anything in particular.

    So, in your view, if a building were burning, and inside was an artificial womb of some sort with twenty viable eggs that will eventually become people, then would there be a moral duty to save them over one five-year-old child?

    presupposing that bodily autonomy is morally relevant

    Do you believe that it isn’t?