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thenewgreen · 4166 days ago · link · · parent · post: First Weekly Hubski Thought Experiment - Kill and Let Die
I don't see the analogy here as being apt. Immediate death is coming to either one of two sets of people, regardless of what Gregg does. In the case of the doctor, death at some point is coming to the patient. You can ease suffering by making that death come sooner. This is a completely different scenario. As the Buddhists say, "life is suffering," and to be born is essentially a death sentence, therefore the question of euthanasia is one of degrees. At what point is the potential for tremendous suffering great enough to warrant assisted suicide? Who determines what level that suffering is? Lot's of subjectivity in there. Not a lot of subjectivity in a train hurling towards one of two groups of people.