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Philosophers, in commenting on one another’s papers, often see their task to be the denial of the former speaker’s position.* You will be relieved to know that I do not intend to argue that there are no moral rights belonging to the terminally ill. In fact, I am sympathetic with most of Professor Audi’s substantive proposals and generally agree with him about which moral considerations must be taken into account. Fortunately for the sake of our discussion, I do disagree with him in some of the arguments offered towards those proposals.
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Sherwin, S. (1978). Comments on “The Moral Rights of the Terminally ILL”. In: Davis, J.W., Hoffmaster, B., Shorten, S. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Contemporary Issues in Biomedical Ethics. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6239-8_4
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