PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Harm Avoidance, Paternalism, Kantianism
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Moral obligation is duty to do something /avoid doing something. Only restricts if: (ways to restrict autonomy: good reason (have a reason, explicit justification (more than being arbitrary, we need to make explicit justifications to know why we should restrict their autonomy) Paternalism: overrides action and deliberation for patient"s own good where some benefit or needless harm be avoid - paternalism wants to restrict their own autonomy (thus doing good) 1: concerns patients w/ lil to no a (e. g. addicted, psychotic, children, less controversial (acceptable as protection, patients will little to no autonomy (children or people with mental illness) Wednesday, march 2, y: acceptable as protection. Strong p: mostly autonomous patients, overrides action and deliberation even if patient mostly a, e. g. committing occasionally disoriented, softening diagnosis to spare feelings or deceiving a patient is justifiable to prevent them from experiencing more pain. Con: overriding sovereignty impermissible: some a sufficient to prohibit p.
