Marquis argues against the "desire account" of why killing is wrong, which claims it is wrong because it frustrates the desires of the victim. Marquis raises a problem that this account allows killing people with no desires, like those in reversible comas. Tooley tentatively responds that while those in comas have no current desires, they had past desires and will likely have future desires, so killing them still frustrates a continuous stream of desires.

1. Don Marquis, in “Why Abortion is Immoral,” champions an
account of the wrongness of killing that he calls the ‘future-
like-ours’ account. Marquis considers two alternative accounts
of the wrongness of killing that have different implications for
the ethics of abortion – the discontinuation account and the
desire account. Explain the first “problem” that Marquis raises
against the desire account. How does Tooley tentatively respond
to a similar worry in “Abortion and Infanticide”?