PHI-2635 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Slippery Slope, Golden Rule, Categorical Imperative
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Every human being has a natural inclination to continue living. Euthanasia does violence to this natural goal of survival. You have to accept that what is natural is good in order to accept this argument. So, euthanasia is wrong: otherwise you cannot move from euthanasia is against nature to euthanasia is wrong, this argument is put forward from people to have religious views on suicide because they are violations of rules. If you were a rational being then you would never consider committing suicide. Medical knowledge is incomplete: treatments for diseases could arise and could save an individual, mistaken diagnosis or prognosis is possible. Sometimes you get a diagnosis that is wrong. Tests can come back false positive, cancer did not grow as fast as the doctors thought, etc. Spontaneous remission occurs: sometimes people who thought they were going to die end up living a longer time for no explanation.
