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If I Never Had By Sinnot Armstrong Summary

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5. Sinnot Armstrong criticizes Marquis’s article and tries to refute the argument made by Marquis in his tendentious paper “You Can’t Lose What you Ain’t Never Had”. Firstly, he points out the Fallacy of Equivocation committed by Marquis on the word ‘Loss’. The word loss has two meanings which he shows with his race example while showing the ethics of abortion. In the race example he says that if there are two people running in a race and one is faster than the other and beats him; it is a neutral loss as the person who lost was not entitled to win. However, if the person who is faster, ties the shoelaces of the other person and defeats him; it will be a moral loss as he resorted to unfair and unethical means. With the support of
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