euthanasia x SE

Question 1

is SE for quality of life or sanctity of life?

Answer 1

quality of life

Question 2

when might fletcher approve of euthanasia?

Answer 2

when someone is dying and in pain
most loving thing to do is alleviate their pain- euthanasia is loving

Question 3

when might fletcher oppose euthanasia?

Answer 3

when someone is forced into euthanasia by family greedy for inheritence- euthanasia from non-loving intention

Question 4

Pope John Robinson

Answer 4

man has come of age
we can move away from legalistic scripture and towards Jesus’ teachings of agape

Question 5

argument against using agape to justify euthanasia

Answer 5

‘do to other what you would have them do to you’

someone may euthanise another person because they would want to be euthanised themselves in that situation- but we cannot assume the person wants to be euthanised

agape is subjective

Question 6

William Barclay x situation ethics

Answer 6

gives humans a dangerous amount of freedom
too much freedom= too much power = leads us to be selfish and cruel

if given freedom to do what we want, we will choose the selfish thing over the loving thing