tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34239589.post5817312209245912525..comments2024-03-27T11:00:44.652-05:00Comments on Michael-In-Norfolk - Coming Out in Mid-Life: Laws Allow Christianists to Withhold Medical TreatmentMichael-in-Norfolkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06330888799107186550noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34239589.post-44038670361564751932007-06-23T01:19:00.000-05:002007-06-23T01:19:00.000-05:00This boils my blood, too.If someone wants to be a ...This boils my blood, too.<BR/><BR/>If someone wants to be a physician, s/he takes the Hippocratic Oath, the first tenet of which, is "do no harm." In our axiological systems, the sole "moral imperative," is "do no harm." All other "moral" claims are subjective, but the moral imperative to "do no harm" is categorical, proscriptive, universal, self-evident, and without exception. Our entire system of justice, hopefully, is predicated on this very moral principle.<BR/><BR/>Ergo, (i) all medical providers of every kind, and (ii) all individuals of every kind, have a moral duty, obligation, and responsibility to "do no harm." One cannot "opt-out" because of some silly superstition, an absurdly fallacious "natural law theory," or because some deity forgot the sole moral duty in his Ten Commandments, Beatitudes, and Dietary Laws. While the "Golden Rule" is Empathy (Benevolence) Maximized (not specifically a moral duty), if it has any force in any venue, it must at its very minimum hold "do no harm." How can one "do to others as one wants done to oneself," and then allow oneself to be "harmed?"<BR/><BR/>Alas, god forgot the Moral Imperative of Do No Harm, but the Greeks sure as hell didn't. And, Aquinas's conflation of (i) natural teleology from Aristotle's Physics, with (ii) Aristotle's instrumental reason from the Nichomachean Ethics, is well-known as the Naturalistic Fallacy (see, www.positiveliberty.com for discussions of this important fallacy).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34239589.post-56975039453151914132007-06-22T23:42:00.000-05:002007-06-22T23:42:00.000-05:00This crap just makes my blood boil.I guess that th...This crap just makes my blood boil.<BR/><BR/>I guess that thing about healing all who enter their doors is just so much empty language.<BR/><BR/>That concerned me when my doctor's practice got swallowed up by a catholic hospital here in Toronto. I keep waiting for them to get shut down all together, seeing as the hospital they used to be associated with was closed down by the province who then sold the land to a condo developer. Sigh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com