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Initial posts must be 250+ words, using correct grammar and spellcheck, posted by Thursday 11:55 p.m. ET each week. Part of the requirement for a substantive post is to bring something new to the conversation. Read the forum prompt and fully answer it, demonstrate understanding of the lesson/content, include evidence from firsthand experience, reference to the course materials, and apply what you’re discussing to work, life, and reality
Euthanasia
- Do you think that voluntariness is morally important in euthanasia decisions? How important do you think that it is? For example, do you think that it is so important that whatever a person requests ought to be done? Explain. Does your conclusion regard the morality or also the legality of euthanasia? [Keep in mind there is both voluntary euthanasia such as Physician Assisted Suicide" and involuntary with is someone pulling the plug (whether with cause or on the patient's directive) or deliberately murdering someone]
- Aristotle
- Clarify as much as possible Aristotle's distinction between practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge. Does an understanding of this distinction help account for why persons who know certain habits or behaviors are harmful, still persist in those behaviors?
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Do you think that voluntariness is morally important in euthanasia decisions? How
important do you think that it is? For example, do you think that it is so important that
whatever a person requests ought to be done? Explain. Does your conclusion regard the
morality or also the legality of euthanasia?
In my opinion, voluntariness is not morally important in euthanasia decision. My opinion
is based on the view that there is no single reason that can have enough justification for relying
on an ailing person’s request to die or either executing his or her death in the name of
voluntariness (Fletcher, 2015). Everyone can argue with certainty that just like suicide, there is
no permanent willingness to die, but it is a temporary feeling that is driven by temporary
circums...