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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Euthanasia


Euthanasia is a controversial topic. First of all, in my view, if somebody wants to understand this practice must to agree that pain and suffering aren't the fundament of its acceptance. That is to say, the pain or suffering of a particular person does that other people feel empathy for this person but the moral ideas can't be a solid base to generate it as an institution.
To see this problem easy, we should have one idea, The right do not come from God or ius naturalis. Just that way, the right to live comes from a constitutional norm and this is given by the man and for the man.  All the fundamental guarantees belong to man and they are not over him. For this reason, the man could dispose of these. If the man has these rights and can dispose of them, suicide or euthanasia must be accepted by the society.
Otherwise, every single time when suicide or euthanasia are not accepted, it is taken that the rights are over the man and force him coercively.  Which means in turn, that the right isn't given by the man, if not, for something outside him. Which in this case are God and his divine laws. And this is to assume that the moral ideas order our legal system. So, the empathy for suffering and pain isn't never something superior as the rules of God.

1 comments:

damc said...

Hi I am totally agree with you in the part where you say that, the right do not come from God or ius naturalis, and I think that Euthanasia have to be accepted but with a lot of norms and laws to dont convert it in a worst solution.

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