Chapter 15 Self-Quiz

. By what feature is euthanasia is distinguished from other behaviors that result in the death of an innocent person?

It is motivated by the desire to benefit other people.

It is motivated by the hope of benefiting the patient.

It is motivated by the desire to save resources.

It is motivated by the hope of saving other lives.

. According to the Impossibility of Voluntary Euthanasia Argument,

it is not possible for people to voluntarily choose to end their lives.

it is not possible for the end of someone's life to be good for them.

only some people who are eligible for euthanasia can be choosing voluntarily.

if doctors think euthanasia is voluntary, they will not agree to perform it.

. Defenders of the Slippery Slope Argument argue that

whether or not terrible abuse of euthanasia is likely, it should be illegal.

if active euthanasia is immoral, then it should also be illegal.

if legalizing active euthanasia would lead to terrible abuse, then active euthanasia should be illegal.

if legalizing active euthanasia would lead to terrible abuse, then active euthanasia is immoral.

. An argument that criticizes social innovations on the grounds that allowing them will lead to terrible results in the long run is called a(n) __________ argument

equivalence

absolutist

perilous plane

slippery slope

. To object to the Compassion Argument, one must show that some

cases of active euthanasia are not compassionate.

cases of passive euthanasia are immoral.

compassionate actions are morally acceptable.

compassionate actions are immoral.

. Which of these terms describes the capacity to determine for ourselves how we are going to live our life?

paternalism

equivalence

autonomy

moralism

. Which of these is a case in which choosing to die might violate someone's rights?

A terminally ill teenager requests to be euthanized, even though it will cause his friends and family great suffering.

A single parent who is terminally ill requests euthanasia without having taken steps to ensure that her children will be well cared-for after her death.

A wife causes her husband to suffer by requesting to be euthanized.

none of the above

. Those who wish to legally prohibit a person's behavior for her own good, even if that behavior is autonomous and violates no one's rights, support

the doctrine of double effect.

libertarianism.

legal moralism.

legal paternalism.

. According to the Absolutist Argument, active euthanasia

is impossible.

is morally acceptable.

is always morally wrong.

should be illegal.

. Which of these arguments concerns the legal status of euthanasia rather than its moral status?

the Absolutist Argument

the Impossibility of Voluntary Euthanasia Argument

the Equivalence Argument

the Medical Error Argument

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