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| Topic | Canadian Doctors have helped 2000 People Commit SUICIDE since it was LEGALIZED! |
| Sahuagin 10/08/17 4:16:43 PM #19: | adjl posted... "First, do no harm" has never been an absolutism. Virtually every medical treatment involves inflicting some sort of harm on the body, with ethical practice demanding that the benefit outweigh that harm. Here, the choice is between helping somebody who - in sound mind - wants to die to achieve that end, or continuing to pour resources into saving the life of somebody who doesn't want to be saved. There's a pretty solid case to be made for calling assisted suicide the best harm/benefit trade-off. depends... 'do no harm' is 'don't increase suffering' not necessarily 'strive to reduce suffering'. the cost/benefit of normal medical treatment is to improve the person's *life*. to attempt to maximize the quality of their life, not to remove their life. I'm not arguing for or against, but your analogy just doesn't work. normal medical treatment is an attempted improvement of quality of life. assisted suicide is a whole other thing, where you accept that quality of life can be low enough that life is not worth living at that level. that's a completely different concept. --- The truth basks in scrutiny. http://i.imgur.com/GMouTGs.jpg http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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