What is your answer?

Suppose that you're pregnant and thinking of doing something (like taking drugs or cigarettes) that would likely result in your child having medical problems after its birth. To apply the golden rule, you'd ask

    { 1 } - "If I were a fetus in this situation, how would I then (as a fetus) react to the idea of my mother doing this to me?"
    { 2 } - "How do I now (as an adult) react to the idea of my mother having done a similar thing while pregnant with me?"
    { 3 } - Both questions mean the same thing.

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1 is wrong. Please try again.

Suppose that you're pregnant and thinking of doing something (like taking drugs or cigarettes) that would likely result in your child having medical problems after its birth. To apply the golden rule, you'd ask

This is the wrong formulation -- as you might remember from the chapter on the golden rule.

Presumably, a fetus has only very simple desires. It probably has no clue about drugs or cigarettes, and what consequences these have.

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2 is correct!

Suppose that you're pregnant and thinking of doing something (like taking drugs or cigarettes) that would likely result in your child having medical problems after its birth. To apply the golden rule, you'd ask

    { 1 } - "If I were a fetus in this situation, how would I then (as a fetus) react to the idea of my mother doing this to me?"
    { 2 } - "How do I now (as an adult) react to the idea of my mother having done a similar thing while pregnant with me?"
    { 3 } - Both questions mean the same thing.

It's important to ask about your present desires toward a hypothetical case. If we're careful to do this, then it makes sense to apply the golden rule to how we treat the unborn.

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3 is wrong. Please try again.

Suppose that you're pregnant and thinking of doing something (like taking drugs or cigarettes) that would likely result in your child having medical problems after its birth. To apply the golden rule, you'd ask

    { 1 } - "If I were a fetus in this situation, how would I then (as a fetus) react to the idea of my mother doing this to me?"
    { 2 } - "How do I now (as an adult) react to the idea of my mother having done a similar thing while pregnant with me?"
    { 3 } - Both questions mean the same thing.

No, they don't!

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