Question 2.
Rachels may struggle with the fact that this law would allow doctor assisted suicide for any reason, even personal choice. She believes the right thing to do is that which brings the most happiness and reduces suffering to the greatest amount of people and that each situation should be analyzed to determine the best choice. She would think that in certain cases, doctor assisted suicide could certainly reduce suffering compared to no suicide or a DYI suicide and that we should try to ensure that it’s only these cases in which a doctor assisted suicide happens. For this reason, Rachels wouldn’t support a blanket approval of suicides, as this law allows but she would be supportive of a law that had steps in place to ensure each suicide …show more content…
It’s how people react to a label that is good or bad but the label itself is beneficial. If you have something that you perceive as a struggle and many people have also had that struggle and come up with ways to deal with the struggle, then it is very beneficial to have access to that knowledge of what helped people deal with that particular struggle. It’s also beneficial to be able to find explanations as to the cause of that struggle. The most efficient way to share that knowledge is to attach a label to that struggle so that when you’re looking for that knowledge about problem X, someone can say I had problem X and this what helped me. Search engines, books, and mental health professionals can all use this label in this manner to effectively connect knowledge seekers to knowledge providers. Without the X label it would be virtually impossible to connect and individual with a certain struggle to someone who had a possible solution to that struggle. In addition, the general public can learn about problem X and develop sympathy for people with it. Of course, these labels are the names of specific mental illnesses and by knowing for example, that I had anxiety and depression, I was able to make sense of why I felt the way I did because I could research those labels and figure out what caused me to feel the way I did and my therapist could then be like, other people who had this same label benefited from treating it this way, maybe you will also benefit from that treatment since your symptoms match the same label as theirs so we know your struggle has some similarities to
Rachels may struggle with the fact that this law would allow doctor assisted suicide for any reason, even personal choice. She believes the right thing to do is that which brings the most happiness and reduces suffering to the greatest amount of people and that each situation should be analyzed to determine the best choice. She would think that in certain cases, doctor assisted suicide could certainly reduce suffering compared to no suicide or a DYI suicide and that we should try to ensure that it’s only these cases in which a doctor assisted suicide happens. For this reason, Rachels wouldn’t support a blanket approval of suicides, as this law allows but she would be supportive of a law that had steps in place to ensure each suicide …show more content…
It’s how people react to a label that is good or bad but the label itself is beneficial. If you have something that you perceive as a struggle and many people have also had that struggle and come up with ways to deal with the struggle, then it is very beneficial to have access to that knowledge of what helped people deal with that particular struggle. It’s also beneficial to be able to find explanations as to the cause of that struggle. The most efficient way to share that knowledge is to attach a label to that struggle so that when you’re looking for that knowledge about problem X, someone can say I had problem X and this what helped me. Search engines, books, and mental health professionals can all use this label in this manner to effectively connect knowledge seekers to knowledge providers. Without the X label it would be virtually impossible to connect and individual with a certain struggle to someone who had a possible solution to that struggle. In addition, the general public can learn about problem X and develop sympathy for people with it. Of course, these labels are the names of specific mental illnesses and by knowing for example, that I had anxiety and depression, I was able to make sense of why I felt the way I did because I could research those labels and figure out what caused me to feel the way I did and my therapist could then be like, other people who had this same label benefited from treating it this way, maybe you will also benefit from that treatment since your symptoms match the same label as theirs so we know your struggle has some similarities to