Journals 9/10

· 9.2 Journal: Views on Suicide

What is your moral position on the issue of suicide? How would you justify this stance?

9.3.1 Journal: Justification of Taking a Human Life

Analyze if taking of human life for self-defense is justifiable. Give reasons for your answer.

9.5 Journal: Terrorism

What is terrorism, and how does it differ from other kinds of war?

9.5.1 Journal: Moral Justification of Terrorism

Is terrorism morally justified? Defend your position.

· Journal: Alternative for Capital Punishment

· What, in your opinion, would constitute a just alternative punishment to capital punishment and why?

· Journal: Self-Defense

· What are your views on permits that allow fellow citizens carrying firearms for self-defense? Give reasons for your stance.

10.1.3 Journal: Difference between Mercy Killing and Mercy Death

Discuss if mercy death is significantly different from mercy killing. Or, in certain situations is mercy killing morally preferable? Give reasons for your answer.

10.3 Journal: Moral Justifications for Mercy Killing

Is mercy killing morally justified in all or only under circumstances? Give reasons for your answer.

· Journal: Allowing Someone to Die on Basis of Moral Ethics

· Analyze one of the issues dealing with allowing someone to die utilizing one of the major ethical theories. Evaluate the same issue according to a different moral theory. Did you reach the same conclusions? Explain your answer.

· Journal: Situations That Forced You to Look at Mercy Killing

· Why have dramatic advances in medicine forced us to take an increasingly harder look at allowing someone to die, mercy death, and mercy killing? Substantiate your answer with specific examples.

10.4 Journal: Karen Ann Quinlan Case

After Karen Ann Quinlan was taken off life-support, she lived for 10 years in a persistent vegetative state. Do you think the court would have made the same decision had they known the result? How will this judgment affect the judgment of similar cases in the future?

10.4.1 Journal: Advance Directives

From ancient times, philosophers have taught that living a good life entails that one close his or her life well. In the light of modern medical technology, do you believe that Advance Directives help people control their final days and hours and end their lives with dignity? Give specific examples to substantiate your response.

· Journal: Physicians Helping Patients Die

· Should physicians assist patients with suicide? Give reasons for your answer.

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