从医师协助的死亡到积极的安乐死的心理滑坡：谬误推理的典范。,Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

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从医师协助的死亡到积极的安乐死的心理滑坡：谬误推理的典范。
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2019-06-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s11019-018-9864-8
Jordan Potter ₁

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在围绕医生协助的死亡和安乐死做法的道德和合法性的辩论中，经常针对这些做法采用的常见逻辑论点是“滑坡论点”。该论点的一种表述主张，接受医生协助的死亡最终将导致“滑坡”，导致接受安乐死的积极性，包括通过自愿，非自愿和/或非自愿形式进行的安乐死，其方式是通过心理和社会过程扭曲的。长期以来社会的价值观和道德观。这种表述被称为心理滑坡论点。本文分析了心理滑坡的论点，将其应用于医师协助的死亡实践中，

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The psychological slippery slope from physician-assisted death to active euthanasia: a paragon of fallacious reasoning.

In the debate surrounding the morality and legality of the practices of physician-assisted death and euthanasia, a common logical argument regularly employed against these practices is the "slippery slope argument." One formulation of this argument claims that acceptance of physician-assisted death will eventually lead down a "slippery slope" into acceptance of active euthanasia, including its voluntary, non-voluntary, and/or involuntary forms, through psychological and social processes that warp a society's values and moral perspective of a practice over an extended period of time. This formulation is known as the psychological slippery slope argument. This paper analyzes the psychological slippery slope argument as it is applied to the practice of physician-assisted death, and utilizing recent empirical evidence from various nations around the world that practice physician-assisted death and/or euthanasia, the paper argues that (1) employing the psychological slippery slope argument against physician-assisted death is logically fallacious, (2) this kind of slippery slope is unfounded in practice, and thus (3) the psychological slippery slope argument is insufficient on its own to justify continued legal prohibition of physician-assisted death.

更新日期：2019-11-01

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