“Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Should Not Be Legal,” by Marker Rita and Kathi Hamlon, briefly describes answered questions and doubts to give one a different viewpoint on this topic. This essay explains how euthanasia and assisted suicide are not a private acts. The article argues that Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide is not about having a right to die, but instead the right to kill. In this article, the author persuades their intended audience using the rhetorical device the fallacy of slippery slope and Inductive reasoning.
The authors had utilized the fallacy of slippery slope in their article to persuade the intended audience. Slippery slope is defined as a process which will prompt something unsuitable. It’s when an action of events …show more content…
The authors incorporated slippery slope in their article by expressing that euthanasia and assisted suicide should not be legal due to certain consequences that may arise afterwards. This fallacy of slippery slope is used in the essay to prevent more devastating and tragic incidents. Within the article it describes euthanasia and assisted suicide as, “to cause the death of”( Marker, Hamlon). By this quote the audience see’s assisted suicide/euthanasia as immoral. The authors also bring up the fact that the elderly can be taken advantage by others. For example, “A Psychiatrist found that Mrs.Cheney was not eligible for assisted suicide since she was not explicitly pushing for it, her daughter seemed to be coaching her to do so, and she couldn’t remember important names and details of even a recent hospital stay.” ( Marker, Hamlon) The author brings up an important situation in which it questions how many individuals are mentally competent to make this vital decision. Within this essay it states, “ Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others. They are not, and never have been, intended to make anyone suffer.” The …show more content…
In everything’s an argument Inductive reasoning is explained as, “The first piles up specific examples and draws a conclusion from them: that's inductive reasoning and structure”(121). As well as stating, “ inductive reasoning a process of start in which particular case is leave it to general principles” (796). Inductive reasoning incorporates within this essay to present examples that are in their favor. For instance , “For example, giving a patient a lethal injection or putting bag over her head to suffocate her be considered euthanasia”( Marker, Hamlon). Then concludes “if the person who dies performs the last act, assisted suicide has taken place. Thus it would be assisted suicide if a person swallows an overdose of drugs that has been provided by a doctor for the purpose of causing death” ( Marker, Hamlon). By authors using this method they are convincing readers to have a different perspective on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Within the article it demonstrates case points where questions from others are being answered with examples and then ended with evidence. “What is the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide?”( Marker, Hamlon) this question was first answered with an example, “ one way to distinguish them is to look at the last act-the act without which death would not occur”( Marker, Hamlon). Then with a fact that
The authors had utilized the fallacy of slippery slope in their article to persuade the intended audience. Slippery slope is defined as a process which will prompt something unsuitable. It’s when an action of events …show more content…
The authors incorporated slippery slope in their article by expressing that euthanasia and assisted suicide should not be legal due to certain consequences that may arise afterwards. This fallacy of slippery slope is used in the essay to prevent more devastating and tragic incidents. Within the article it describes euthanasia and assisted suicide as, “to cause the death of”( Marker, Hamlon). By this quote the audience see’s assisted suicide/euthanasia as immoral. The authors also bring up the fact that the elderly can be taken advantage by others. For example, “A Psychiatrist found that Mrs.Cheney was not eligible for assisted suicide since she was not explicitly pushing for it, her daughter seemed to be coaching her to do so, and she couldn’t remember important names and details of even a recent hospital stay.” ( Marker, Hamlon) The author brings up an important situation in which it questions how many individuals are mentally competent to make this vital decision. Within this essay it states, “ Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others. They are not, and never have been, intended to make anyone suffer.” The …show more content…
In everything’s an argument Inductive reasoning is explained as, “The first piles up specific examples and draws a conclusion from them: that's inductive reasoning and structure”(121). As well as stating, “ inductive reasoning a process of start in which particular case is leave it to general principles” (796). Inductive reasoning incorporates within this essay to present examples that are in their favor. For instance , “For example, giving a patient a lethal injection or putting bag over her head to suffocate her be considered euthanasia”( Marker, Hamlon). Then concludes “if the person who dies performs the last act, assisted suicide has taken place. Thus it would be assisted suicide if a person swallows an overdose of drugs that has been provided by a doctor for the purpose of causing death” ( Marker, Hamlon). By authors using this method they are convincing readers to have a different perspective on euthanasia and assisted suicide. Within the article it demonstrates case points where questions from others are being answered with examples and then ended with evidence. “What is the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide?”( Marker, Hamlon) this question was first answered with an example, “ one way to distinguish them is to look at the last act-the act without which death would not occur”( Marker, Hamlon). Then with a fact that