Final Exam Review Flashcards

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Speciest

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one who discriminates against another’s rights by virtue of their belonging to another non-human species

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Singer’s criteria for personhood

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Anyone who:

  • can feel pain
  • make their own decisions
  • foresee a future
  • able to communicate
  • ability to reason
  • self-aware
  • autonomous
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Distributive Justice

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says scarcity is a reality adn whatever you have, there will always be a need for more

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Criminal Justice

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punish and isolate the offender and try to rehabilitate them

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2 main elements of justice

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1) does a decision negatively affect some more than others?

2) are the risks taken mostly by one group and the benefits enjoyed by another?

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Substantive or Material Question of Justice

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  • answers question: who should recieve care first

- states what we value and why we choose one over the other

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Procedural or Process Question of Justice

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  • answers question: how we apply the answer to “who goes first’
  • it is the application in real life of our beliefs that answer substantive questions of justice
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5 substantive questions of justice

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  1. need
  2. equality
  3. utility
  4. liberty
  5. restitution
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Main focus of “need”

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measures of a societies justice is how well it looks after the needs of basic or essential health of its whole population

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Main focus of “Equality”

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equal resources for equal needs

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Main focus of “Utility”

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greatest good for the greatest number of people

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Main focus of “liberty”

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bases allocation on deserving it, you deserve health and should act in a way that maximizes health

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Main focus of “Restitution”

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access and share should reflect past wrong-doings deprieved them of the same thing

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4 elements of cheating

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  1. the rule must be fair and fairly enforced
  2. rule-breaking must take place in a cooperative rule-governed activity
  3. the rule-breaker must intend to break rules
  4. the rule-breaker must intend to gain an advantage
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Cheating

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trying to intentionally gain an advantage when the rules say otherwise

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Intrinsic Goods

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benefits you gain from doing the activity that have value only to you, regardless of whether you win or lose

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Extrinsic Goods

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the things of commercial value that we gain from high performance

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Zero Sum

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one will win, the other will lose and I will win and get what I want because I took drugs

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Non-Zero Sum

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want to benefit yourself rather than beating someone else, focus is on self-improvement

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Section 14 in Criminal Code

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you cannot ask someone to help kill you

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Section 241 in Criminal Code

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suicide is not illegal, but you cannot counsel people on how to do it

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Active Euthanasia

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killing a patient, your actions were the actions that caused death

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Passive Euthanasia

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letting a patient die, not interfering with life-saving measures

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Withholding Treatment

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not performing a needed surgery or procedure where not doing it means they will not survive

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Cessation of Treatment
ending life-sustaining treatments, turning off a respirator
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Voluntary Euthanasia
killing or letting die a competent person who has expressed a desire for this (usually over a sustained period of time)
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Non-Voluntary Euthanasia
killing or letting die when the patient is unable to express such a desire
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Involuntary
killing a person against their wishes to stay alive, rarely happens because it is extremely unethical
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Assisted Suicide
someone will help you with everything that will help you end your life, but you will be the one who flips the switch
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What are the 5 things the law in Canada says about etuhanasia?
1. voluntary passive euthanasia = legal 2. voluntary active euthanasia = legel before 2015 3. non-voluntary passive euthanasia = legal 4. non-voluntary active euthanasia = illegal 5. assisted suicide = legal as of 2015
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Coma
brain activity but no consciousness or wakefulness
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Persistent Vegetative State (PVS)
wakefulness but no awareness
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Minimally Conscious State (MCS)
wakefulness and minimal awareness
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Locked In Syndrome
full consciousness but extreme paralysis
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What is the procedure to receive MAID in Canada?
1. have to fill out written request with 2 independent assessments 2. 10 day waiting period and must be elgible for publically funded health care 3. your natural death has to be reasonably foreseeable