Autonomy In Law

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Just because a person is free to kill themselves does not mean that they are right to do so. Hadley Arkes believes the right to die upholds the idea of privacy, and self-rule. Self-rule being governing oneself and being independent of those surrounding them. This idea of autonomy is described as, many judges believe that people do in fact have self-governing abilities. Humans have the right to kill themselves, however that is not to say that the government should create a bill in order to indorse this behavior (Arkes). This means that free will does not make a decision right in comparison to the justification of a law. An example being a person freely can rob a bank. However, that action is not right by the laws of the land and they will

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