10) The purpose of these questions is to understand whether the criteria thatjustify finishing something you started and have put time and energy into arethe same criteria that would justify

beginning it in the first place. Why or whynot? Are the grounds for remaining alive, for someone who suffers, the samegrounds for their being conceived in the first place? What about when theyare still in the womb with regard to being born or carried to term? Explainand justify your answer, and use an underlying general moral principle forsupport (as I used my principle for support in the "supermarket examples" inthe Introduction to Ethics).