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The Right to Die |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Morton A. Kaplan |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 1,374 Words, 9,669 Characters |
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Apart from the constitutional infirmity of the reasoning of the two circuit courts, the opinions were based on a poor understanding of philosophy and of social policy. Let us discuss the issue of social policy first.vbcrlf To begin, I admit to having considerable sympathy for the position the courts reached. I have no religious objection to what in principle, if not necessarily in practice, is in effect suicide.vbcrlf By the time this is published I shall have spent an intellectually vigorous three quarters of a century on this earth. My ability to function in my accustomed manner, and not my physical shell, is essential to my sense of identity, the real me. Were I to come down with a bad case of ...
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...one outmoded, philosophical doctrines.vbcrlf The courts should stay away from philosophy as if it were the plague and insofar as this is possible eschew considerations of social policy, especially in the grand sense. Even if law is not logic, it should not be transformed into social legislation according to the subjective preferences of judges. vbcrlf
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