violinist argument

Proper noun

(philosophy) An argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is unplugged, he will die, but if he stays plugged into the kidnappee for nine months, he will recover from his ailment. The argument assumes that in this hypothetical scenario, the kidnappee has the right to unplug themselves from the violinist at any time even if this will cause his death, because the violinist does not have a right to the kidnappee’s body.

Japanese Meaning

（哲学）中絶の権利を支持するための議論の一例。稀な血液型を持つ人物が、人質として有名な意識不明のヴァイオリニストに繋がれてしまい、接続を解除すればヴァイオリニストが死に、接続を続ければ中絶に類する体験を強制されるという思考実験に基づく議論で、被験者には自らの体からヴァイオリニストを切り離す権利が認められるとする主張です。