Quick Quiz

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Quick Quiz

• Genetic Choices and Euthanasia Physician
  Assisted Suicide

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Genetic Choices

• Will you develop Venous Thrombosis? This is an
  example of
• Predictive Testing
• Diagnostic Testing
• Newborn Screening
• Carrier Testing
• Prenatal Testing

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Genetic Choices

• Why does Vaughn think physicians have a general
  duty to make genetic information hard to acquire?
• People are generally disturbed by it
• It creates a financial burden on healthcare
• Businesses and insurance companies will misuse
  the information if it gets loose
• Knowledge is power, and power should be kept in
  the hands of experts

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Genetic Choices

• Preventing someones disease by making sure they
  never exist is reasoning Dan Brock calls
• immoral
• incoherent
• indispensible
• inadvertent
• invertebrate

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Genetic Choices

• One reason the book offers to stop genetic
  testing for birth defects is
• the tests themselves cause defects
• it is disrespectful to disabled people
• no test is ever certain
• tests cause parents anxiety
• none. There is no such reason

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Death and Dying

• The PowerPoint defines suicide as
• the intentional termination of ones own life
• the termination of ones own life
• the cognizant termination of ones own life
• killing oneself or allowing oneself to be killed
• refusing to fight for ones own life

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Death and Dying

• In class we evaluated the morality of the
  decision to end your life by
• our own values
• proportionate reasons
• the categorical imperative
• hypothetical imperatives
• the principle of utility

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Death and Dying

• According to the God owns your life argument,
  God can tell you what to do with your life
  because
• God can do anything
• God created you
• God knows whats best
• God bought you from the devil
• Gods commands make it right

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Death and Dying

• Which is a reply to the Life is too precious
  argument against permitting suicide?
• The term precious in the argument is undefined
• Life does not always form the basis on which all
  other goods depend
• Who is to say what is precious and what is not
  precious?
• Preciousness is a monetary notion, and it is
  wrong to put a price on life
• None of the above

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Death and Dying

• If lazy freeloaders, bums, and drug addicts
  commit suicide, its no great loss for society,
  is a response to which argument to ban suicide?
• God owns your life
• Long life is the highest good
• Human life is precious
• Suicide harms the community
• Suicide harms others

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Death and Dying

• If we use proportionate reasons in calculating
  when its okay to commit suicide, we are, in
  essence, rejecting the normative ethical view of
  ?
• Mill
• Aristotle
• Kant
• Aquinas
• God

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Death and Dying

• What is wrong with punishing folks who commit
  suicide?
• They deserve sympathy, not condemnation
• It is impossible to punish the dead
• It looks ridiculous
• Preventing intended suicides is more practical
• Nothings wrong with it

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Answers

• A
• C
• B
• B
• A
• B
• B
• B
• D
• C
• D