PHIL 2075 Lecture 6: L6 Reads - Euth. cont'd
28 Nov 2018
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It may be morally permissible to assist in suicide, but velleman does not think that the best way to help someone die is to create a law or an institutional right to do so. Beliees that dignity and autonomy is taken out of context and was not how. Should not be legalized because he believes it will bring about more harm than good: but not worried about choosing to die by mistake, options can then be perceived as undesirable because it puts one. It is worse to refuse than it is to simply not show up: people can still be harmed by having a choice even if the agent does what is best for him or her. When given a choice, the agent is already worse off because we took away what they were originally entitled to do by default: choosing what the best option is is therefore merely cutting one"s losses.
