Students and Their Violinist.

I asked my students yesterday if they would remained hooked up to a violinist for five months if they were hooked up to them without their consent.  Here are some of their answers:

The vast majority of them said they absolutely would remain hooked up to the violinist.  A few said that while they had no moral imperative to stay hooked up to the violinist, they would choose to remain anyway.

A much smaller group of students said that the violinists could make no claims up on their bodies.

Here is the breakdown:

All of this, of course, is a prelude to Judith Jarvis Thomson’s article on the morality of abortion.  It will be interesting to see how student’ views change after reading that article.