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consequentialist-based on outcome
Hedonistic-based on pleasure and pain-the only relevant factors
Principle of utility-other people affected
Hedonic calculus- more concerned with preventing pain than actual pleasure |
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Qualitative-pain is a lower pleasure therfore carries less weight
more likely to support the person face with mantal degeneration than a person with ALS
considers autonomy and liberty to be of utmost value |
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no problem in principle
each individual situation needs to be assessed. |
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effects of a change in legislation
non-voluntary -outcry
- killed against will
voluntary-people may feel pushed
doctors acting for greatest good may not know what would make the patient happy
if allowed as a rule,there may be conditions such as terminal illness |
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considers preferences of people rather than happiness
might rule out non-voluntary euthanasia
Tony Bland-other preferences which the money that was keeping him alive was preventing(weigh up other patients preferences) |
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wanted to get away from consequentialism
not the action that is wrong but the motive
kill with the intention of relieving pain, this is good |
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ask what is in the interests of someone who might be in great pain or terminally ill
allows us to answer questions where someone is unable to express a preference
people will disagree about what is in someone's best interests |
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