PHIL20401 Lecture 16: lecture 16 notes
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Making physician assisted suicide permissible goes against personal autonomy o o. This gives patients options they wouldn"t have otherwise. It being up to you whether or not you are euthanized harms you because it forces you to justify your continued existence. o. The most important way in which the option of euthanasia may harm patients, i think, is that it will deny them the possibility of staying alive by default. (673) Draws distinction btw 2 types of autonomy o. Kant: ought to respect the ability for personal autonomy. Things that are autonomous are things that we ought to respect. We can respect someone"s autonomy by providing as many o. Sometimes having choices actually hurts you opportunities to exercise autonomy as possible. Ex 1) cashier- may not want to have ability to open a safe bc if someone comes to rob the place its better if you can"t open the safe.
