PHL281H1 Lecture 11: Lecture 11- Physician Assisted Suicide .docx
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It"s not wrong to kill a person with a flo provided that the person has an ideal, dispositional desire to discontinue living. (alternative to marquis: competent terminally ill persons facing an imminent decline unto death (and almost no one else) can rationally commit suicide (i. e. , can have an ideal dispositional desire to discontinue living). (brandt, therefore, killing such a terminally ill person is morally permissible. (from 1 & 2, more previous conclusions, physicians ought not to kill because it is contrary to the principles of medical practice. Comparing bombers 1 & 2: there are identical consequences in the two cases: the athletes are killed and munitions factory is destroyed, can we reasonably say that bomber 1 acts in a morally unacceptable way because he intends to kill the athletes, but bomber 2 acts in a morally acceptable way because she merely foresees the death of the athletes, yes: intent matters.
