Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 346 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Argument from Mercy
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The idea
The argument from mercy: where suffering is great, unrelievable, and unwanted, ending it at the sufferer's request is what compassion has left to offer.
In practice
The argument's engine is a question: name what the last weeks of agony purchased, and for whom. Where no answer comes, mercy presses.
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