Consider This Rule-Utilitarian Argument Against Legalizing Euthanasia: Passing a Law

question 3

Multiple Choice

Consider this rule-utilitarian argument against legalizing euthanasia: Passing a law to permit active voluntary euthanasia would inevitably lead to abuses such as more frequent use of nonvoluntary euthanasia and unnecessary killing; therefore, no such law should be passed. Such an argument is characterized as

• A) abductive.
• B) Kantian.
• C) a slippery slope.
• D) equivocation.

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