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Euthanasia - Coggle Diagram
Euthanasia
NLE
We should follow biblical teachings, Euthanasia violates the primary precept to protect and preserve human life and also violates ordered societies by allowing murder
God created life, only he may take it
“the greatest threat to world peace is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child in her own womb, what is left to stop us from killing one another?”
The Catholic Church uses the double effect to claim that sometimes doctors can stop or withdraw treatment (passive euthanasia) or even administer pain medication which could speed up death. So long as the intention is not to kill, the double effect would suggest such actions can be morally acceptable.
Sit Eth
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It can be morally good, in situations which maximise agape and morally bad in situations where agape is minimised
Loving natures can be corrupted by power, someone may find it loving to end their life as they believe themselves to be a burden
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Autonomy
Each person owns their body, and therefore can do what they want with it
BAD IDEA, look at a lovesick teenager that wishes to die for short-sighted reasons, therefore we should take a consequentialist stance towards these issues instead
Thinking of autonomy as being free to act on literally any desire we might have, ignores the fact that humans are often irrational. When acting based on intense emotions, we aren’t acting autonomously, we’re acting animalistically.
consequentialism results in a slippery slope towards absolutist autonomy. However, by adding a rationalist calculation to decisions of self-euthanasia we can protect the idea from slipping
Slippery slope
If we allow euthanasia in some cases, we are in danger of slowly allowing it in more controversial cases
We start with terminal illness, then we’ll allow it for incurable illness. Then incurable mental illness. Then, we might start encouraging people to be euthanised to save money for the NHS. Then, we might start involuntary euthanasia of homeless people – and then disabled people and then we’re in danger of becoming like the Nazis.