Moral equivalence is of little use to those dying without dignity

Ireland“Because of the refusal to let me speak in Ireland, my arguments for the legalisation of euthanasia have unfortunately been lost in the noise surrounding the non-event. This has been especially evident in the press and on the internet where I have been subjected to intense abuse based on erroneous beliefs about my position. For example, I have never argued, as many have claimed, that involuntary euthanasia should be legalised or that money could be saved by the state through killing vulnerable or elderly people. Nor have I argued that the law should be broken, but rather that it should be changed …” (more)

[Len Doyal, Irish Times, 24 April]

Comments

  • The distinction between non-voluntary and involuntary is a nice logical distinction, but no more than a fig leaf for Professor Doyal and others of a similar conviction. The persons being discussed are unable to communicate their wishes. No one knows if they wish to die or be killed, or wish to live. Even advocates of euthanasia are not (yet) proposing to kill patients whom they know do not wish to die.

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