Written by Margaret Somerville, a professor of law at the McGill Centre for Medicine, Law and Ethics states that euthanasia is a way to perceive death in “reductionist” light (xiii). While Margaret Somerville makes a valid argument, she manipulates factual evidence to support her beliefs as well as relying solely on conviction that pro-euthanasia supporters are on a “primary intention of killing people” (Somerville 25) thus misleading her audience. She incorrectly sites a Dutch government study in 1990 and 1995 to see who participates in euthanasia, she has multiple fallacies which weaken her argument dramatically and she overlooks several statistics of patients and doctors who want to legalize euthanasia – these points make Somerville’s argument unsound but also leaves the audience struggling to agree with her
In the short article “Why evolution should be taught in public schools” by Laura H. Kahn, author states that in order to understand true science knowledge children in schools should be taught evolution of plants, animals and humans. In the beginning of her passage she gives example of previous science case that had to go through many struggles before it was accepted and approved. “In the nineteenth century, the prevailing dogma was "spontaneous generation." It did nothing to prepare scientists and physicians to develop effective strategies against the infectious diseases that were killing untold numbers of people. Louis Pasteur, the French chemist who developed the rabies vaccine, was instrumental in disproving spontaneous generation and replacing it with the germ theory of disease.
“Means are the tools or behaviors that one employs to achieve a desired outcome [either good or bad]. Ends are those outcomes that one desires to achieve [either good or bad as well]. (pg 27) The Tuskegee Study had bad means with bad ends, being that the doctors and researchers knew they were going to misinform their patients, in hopes they would stay with the study. This was deliberately intended unethical behavior. Although the researchers, doctors and nurses took care of these men, they did not properly inform them of the outcome from having “bad blood”, syphilis.
Many of the men were representing the intellectual elite of the Nazi party. Of the 25 Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommando leaders, 15 of them were doctors of jurisprudence or philosophy or had a PhD. The job that the Einsatzgruppen had was to eliminate Polish political opponents and Jews. Initially, they were able to not only use force against armed resistance, strikes and sabotage, but also accuse irregulars and spies before a court and sentence them to death. This was still not satisfactory for Reinhardt Heydrich and although 200 people were being executed a day he thought that they must be shot and hanged without trial.
The New York police violated Delbert's rights by tricking him to confess (which he later retracted) and by having him sign a written statement that he could not understand because he was illiterate. The story reflects the need for euthanasia in the United States because the story tells how someone can have a disease so fatal and not receive any help for it. Euthanasia should be legalized because of patient’s rights, prevention of pain and suffering, and to create health care alternatives. Euthanasia is one of the most controversial topics in the world and several people have many opinions regarding the topic. Euthanasia has been around for centuries and has been a difficult subject for individuals to discuss.
He took over several countries for the sole purpose of getting rid people who weren’t good enough for him. In the end, the Nazis killed around 6.5 million Jews. They used a unspeakable device called concentration camps. The story, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, takes place in 1942 at one of the most devastating of all the concentration camps, Auschwitz. Auschwitz was not only the largest of all the concentration camps, but also the most infamous.
This film shows the importance of how one treats others is more important than how one is made, and this is a product of nurture one receives. In the film, Frankenstein, Frankenstein, the scientist, decides to create a life with his knowledge of science. When Frankenstein succeeds in creating a life, the creature tends to respect and obey Frankenstein’s rules. However, the cruelty of Fritz, Dr. Waldman, and the carelessness of Frankenstein’s duty to nurture the Monster leads to the Monster’s evil behavior. The movie begins with a short narration by the narrator that this is one of the strangest tales ever told; with the two great mysteries of creation- life and death.
The specific number of victims murdered in "Operation Euthanasia" is not known, but it is believed to be somewhere between 71,088 to over 100,000. In so-called "Euthanasia Operations,” Nazis murdered patients with psychiatric or hereditary diseases in large numbers. Psychiatric patients in Germany were sent to six institutions, where they were deprived of their lives in gas chambers. In his plan delivered on 3rd August, 1941, at St Lambert's Church in Münster, Bishop von Galen of Münster intensely condemned this cruel operation in public. Quoting the fifth commandment, "Thou shall not kill", he said it was sinful to kill innocent people on account of their unproductiveness.
Not only was in for Jews they placed homosexuals, criminals of war, and political prisoners, and Jehovah's Witnesses. This camp killed about one million one hundred thousand people. They hand a system at this camp, they would send most of them to the left and some to the right. The people going to the left were unknowingly walking into a death trap, the Nazis would not tell the victims this to prevent them fighting back. Instead the nazis told them that they were going to be sent to work but first they had to take a shower, so the Jews were lead into this huge shower room with fake shower head and were told to strip their clothes.
They slept on with no mattress or pillow. The weak children were killed and the healthy ones were kept as slaves. Nazi doctors did medical experiments on the prisoners against their will. Extermination camps sole purpose was to kill large number of Jews quickly and efficiently. There were six extermination camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz and Majdanek.