Abstract Moralizin

Question 1

What is Callaghan’s stance on individual self-determination?

Answer 1

It has limits when it comes to ending life.

Question 2

What does Callaghan argue about the right to life?

Answer 2

It is non transferrable, it couldn’t be transferred to one such as a physician

Question 3

What does Callaghan argue about medicine’s role?

Answer 3

Medicine is to heal, not decide when life is worthwhile. Physicians are not good judges for MAID.

Question 4

What is Callaghan’s slippery slope?

Answer 4

Once some people go through the process, there will be a chain reaction of people killing for no good moral reason

Question 5

What is Callaghan’s stance on prima facie or absolute moral duties?

Answer 5

He argues that Prima facie does not exist and death will run rampant regardless of circumstance

Question 6

What is the “missing human predicament” Lachs argues Callaghan ignores?

What is Callaghan’s counter?

Answer 6

The intense suffering of real patients

Callaghan argues that physicians are unable to know how much someone else is suffering