POLI 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Euthanasia
11 Apr 2017
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The right to autonomy and the right to life. The individual has the right to autonomy to do whatever they want with their body. It is no longer asking for an extension of right to who denied them. Euthanasia debate: if you are capable you can make a rational choice. They are no longer in a position to say if they want their life to end. Denying it would make all the other rights meaningless. No all lives act as all lives are valuable. Be aware + have a desire to continue to exist to have the right to life. If you only have rights if you are aware of their existence = they are unaware. They suggest that: member of the human specie does not mean you have. They suggest that: member of the human specie does not mean you have a right to life. If you try to argue about the morality of euthanasia:
