さあ、何の反響もなく本当に誰か読んでくれているのかわからないのに気迫で発進したこの企画（笑）！！！その名も「Victorのストラグリングエッセイ」。ストラグリングとは「もがく」「じたばたする」という意味です。ここでは僕がいかに苦しんでエッセイを書いていくかを報告しましょう。
とりあえず、今回のエッセイは哲学のクラスのものです。枚数はタイピングで4ページ（ちなみにこれは哲学のクラスではとても少ない枚数です）。締め切りは次の木曜日。お題は「A Defense of Abortion: A compromise View」という中絶についての論文について述べよ、というものです。まあ正直言ってこの論文を読むだけでかなりきつかったのですが、そんな事を言っていても話は進まないので読む段階ははしょります。とりあえず今日の午後に書いた段階で次のものです。
Victor
Phil 1
99/09/05
Topic#1
In an article, “A Defense of Abortion: A compromise View,” Judith Thomson discusses why she supports abortion. One of the basic and unique ideas of this article is that admits all babies have rights “from the moment of conception (197, 2)” and she then proposes killing is not always morally impermissible. In order to explain this idea, Thomson gives two examples, which are a violinist’s example and Henry Fonda example. These examples show us there are some cases people do not responsible for other people’s death.
First, there is one thing that we should not misunderstand about Thomson’s opinion. She does not say every mother has rights to operate abortion. There are only two cases she suggests having abortion. Those are; “a pregnancy due to rape (198, 38-39)” and “a case in which continuation of the pregnancy is likely to shorten the mother’s life (199, 11-12lines).” She just disagrees to the anti-abortion opinion that prohibits all kinds of abortions without any exceptions.
Under this circumstance, Thomson starts arguing about a violinist’s example (198). In this example, there is one innocent and unlucky man who is kidnapped to help one famous fatal violinist. Without any notations, the unlucky man is kidnapped and told that “last night the violinist’s circulatory system was plugged to yours, so that your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood (198, 20-21).” In order to help the famous violinist, the man has to stay in a bed for nine months and bear boring time. This is obviously a metaphor of pregnancy due to rape. Thomson then says there are usually two opinions toward this argument. One is that everybody must have rights to live so that a mother has to bear the nine months, and the other arguments is that those babies “come into existence because of rape (198, 41)” have less rights to survive. However, Thomson judges both of them are wrong. According to her, the central problem is not a matter of more or less rights to survive.
ここまで書くのに一時間半（涙）。まだまだ枚数的には一枚と少しくらいなので話になっていないのですが、とりあえず今日の成果です。今回の目玉はもうほとんど「機械的」に書いたOpeningですかね（笑）。ここでは今回のArticleの大体の説明と大まかな作者の意見をリビューしています。まだこの段階ではアイデアをまとめることがメインなので文法や構成はあまり気にせず書いています。僕のいつもの書き方はとりあえず何でもいいから規定枚数書いて、それから大幅に改造していくというものです。
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