HSS 4107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Morphine, Involuntary Euthanasia, Palliative Care
12 Mar 2018
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Belief that if you allow it once and it will lead to it getting out of control. Often used as a tool to project fears that a person has. 2) if x is permissible then through a series of steps (y) leads to z. Problem with the argument, requires 2 premises: one causative and one normative. Normative presence is hard to prove; must prove that the final step (z) is reckless and leads vulnerable people open to abuse; must have evidence. (cid:862)it"s har(cid:373)ful a(cid:374)d re(cid:272)kless, trust (cid:373)e(cid:863: the (cid:862)great argu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) Advocates believe that if you start with x then we are going to have a change of practices that leads society to slide into moral deterioration that will lead to nazi style atrocities. Always leads to nazism and the third reich. 13. 4 per 100 000 killed themselves in 1972. Went down to 13. 0 per 100 000 in 1999.
