PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Homicide, Euthanasia, Deontological Ethics
10 Mar 2016
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The analysis of the irst quesion leads to the conclusion that from a moral point of view, the concepts of leing die and killing in the context of euthanasia are on equal grounds. The analysis of the second quesion tends to lead to the conclusion that the actual cases of killing are much more horrible than the actual cases of leing die. But for rachels that"s because we think of killing and leing die outside the context of euthanasia. Then, the main reason for the second conclusion is bias: we read about killing in the media, we learn that the killer had an ulterior moive of personal gain or hatred for the vicim. In this case, the terms need to be rephrased and are not the same as actual killing. We want to avoid pejoraive, negaive connotaions associated with. Killing" outside of context: therefore, morally passive and acive euthanasia are the same.
