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sjones

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Callahan argues that those who say there is no morally significant difference
  between killing a patient and allowing the patient to die are guilty of confusing
  ___________.


 
 

a. Cause and effect
  b. Causality and culpability
  c. Intention and causality
  d. Selfdetermination and murder



Question 2

The debate on euthanasia, Callahan says, is profoundly emblematic of three
  important turning points in Western thought. Which of the following is not a point
  mentioned by Callahan?


 
 

a. The conditions under which one person may legitimately kill another.
  b. The meaning and limits of selfdetermination.
  c. The limiting of coercion by the moral majority
  d. The job of medicine is to make its skills available to individuals to helm them
  achieve their private vision of the good life




macagnavarro

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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C



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