Euthanasia and situation ethics

Euthanasia and situation ethics

1. Euthanasia

   • Supported when it was deemed the most loving thing to do and everyone involved fully understands the rules and regualtions
     • Should be guided by the patients condition, situation and wishes
   • Matter of dignity
   • Quality of life is more important than sanctity of life
   • Human beings have the qualities of: Minimal inteligence, self awareness, sense of time, concern for others, communication, rationality, feeling, thinking and having an identity

2. Situation ethics

   • Each individual situation is deemed to be moral or immoral. The results are based on agape
   • A-altruistic G-god is love A-attitudinal P-philanthropist E-egoism
   • Six fundamental principles
     • 1. Only love is intrinsically good
       • 2. Christian love is the only ruiling norm
         • 3. Love and justice are the same
           • 4. Love is not the same as liking
             • 5. Only the loving ends justify the means
               • 6. Love decides situationally, not prescriptively
   • Four presumptions
     • Pragmatism- based on experience
     • Relativism
     • Positivism
     • Personalism
   • Easy to apply and follow Puts people first Focuses on the outcome up to date
   • Subjective
     • Nonhumans get harmed unfair
       • Idolises the individual
         • No rules