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Against the biological account of death

Julian Kanu has recently defended a pro-life perspective on abortion by arguing for a novel theory of the badness of death called the biological account of death (BAD). BAD is a deprivationist account similar to Jeff McMahan’s time relative interest account (TRIA). Kanu argues that BAD explains our intuitions about the badness of death as well as TRIA, except in one special case regarding a comatose infant. In this case, BAD accommodates our intuition that such an infant would be seriously harmed by death, but TRIA does not. All else being equal, BAD is a better theory than TRIA. I argue that not all is equal between the two theories; TRIA accommodates intuitions that BAD cannot, and there is reason to doubt our intuitions regarding the comatose infant.

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Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 01/05/2026 | Link to this post on IFP |
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