Round 8: Tossup 3
Description acceptable. The immorality of recommending this act is demonstrated with an example involving a bathtub in James Rachels’ “Bare Difference Argument.” This is the second title act of a book that contrasts a case involving sending an envelope with one where a Mercedes owner encounters a trespassing birdwatcher. A philosopher who wrote that “negative duties” govern this act defined it in terms of uninitiated sequences. A Peter Singer-inspired book titled (*) Living High and [this act] is by Peter Unger. According to Philippa Foot, abortion is not an example of this act and is thus morally wrong. Judith Jarvis Thomson considers unplugging the famous violinist to be an example of this act. For 10 points, withholding medical care as part of passive euthanasia is an example of what act of omission often contrasted with killing? ■END■
ANSWER: letting die [accept word forms like let die; accept allowing harm or allowing death; accept descriptions of deliberately not saving a life or not saving a pregnant mother’s life; accept Living High and Letting Die; accept passive euthanasia or non-voluntary passive euthanasia before read; prompt on euthanasia; prompt on acts of omission or descriptions of inaction by asking “which have what outcome?”; prompt on descriptions of not aborting by asking “which has what consequence?”; reject “killing” or “active euthanasia”]
<AM, Philosophy> | NAFTA-Packet-8
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