Do you feel that a human being has a duty to live? Is there perhaps a positive right to die, unter certain and very complicated conditions that have nonbinary decision parameters?
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Replying to @Plinz @clairlemon
Yes. But one must first be of sound mind.
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That's why both her legal guardian (in this case her mother) and a doctor had to consent.
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Not good enough. Too many emotions from guardian and not enough from doctor. First, do no harm.
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If you prevent a patient from escaping their pain, you are possibly doing harm.
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Got it. So you objectively consider subjective pain a greater harm than death?
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Yes, of course. Existence may contain the potential for benefit and harm, but is by itself neutral.
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Not “of course” in Christian philosophy. We believe all Life is sacred and has value. For us the presence of life is never neutral. We grant that there is suffering and often much suffering but to thumb one’s nose at one’s own Life is the only (objectively) unforgivable sin.
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Does this also mean that such things as extinction of a species is benign?
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It is neutral. Without the disappearance of species there would be less room for new ones.
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