Friday, March 12, 2010
Euthanasia, on the view of Kantian Ethics
Life or death - Whose decision is it? Does the state have the right to restrict or prohibit a terminally ill person from seeking an assisted suiside? These questions have been most basic question since euthanasia raised as problem in some part of the world. And this problem has been and continues to be an issue of controversy. Euthanasia is defined "as the deliberate infliction of death on a person who is suffering from an incurable disease". As the meaning says, in some part of he world, such as Western Asia, they have settled euthanasia as legal. But, even though it is settled as legal, do other people who is not even related to the ill person have right to kill him because of the illness? According to Kantian ethics, osmissions are subject to the same moral rules as acts, which means that the euthanasia is morally acceptable only if we could will it to be universal laws of nature. But, we could not universally will that letting someone die is morally distinct from killing people by the name of euthanasia. This conclusion that accords to Kantian Ethics, is that all human on Earth, in the world, has to accept to perform euthanasia of a man who is ill, and by all means, euthanasia must not be performed by people in the name of the euthanasia. It is morally bad performance in the world.
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I disagree with you, Kant, because euthanasia is a way to free yourself from the body and achieve the chief good, according to you... The soul is the chief good and you must not let it free? You are who you are, not who you want to become. If you want to die because you are terminally ill and you believe it's right, then you are welcomed to pursue it.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you also Kant. In no way by committing suicide you will change your life as how it is.
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