The Collaspse of our Traditional Ethics

Peter Singer poses one such example in his book. He states, “The American Medical Association has a policy that says a doctor can ethically withdraw all means of life-prolonging medical treatment including food and water from a patient in an irreversible coma. Yet the same policy insists that ‘the physician should not intentionally cause death’ (2). In this policy, medical doctors have the permission, under ethical law, to take away anything that can lengthen the life of a patient so long as th

This policy contradicts itself because the first half of it says to do one thing and the other portion bluntly directs the doctor not to do it. That is like telling someone you can steal food if and only if you are desperate for it and there is no other way you can obtain it. Then after you told them that, you say that it is extremely wrong to steal. Not only does this it baffle physicians but this policy’s confusion can also affect jury’s in

To some people, the American Medical Association’s policy might not be confusion at all. A doctor withholding food and water from a patient in that condition is not considered an intentional cause of death. To say that would be like saying the physician purposely killed the patient, which sounds unbelievable. A physician “should not intentionally cause death” unless the patient is in an “ irreversible coma”. From this perspective, it seems very clear.

e patient is in a coma in which he/she may never wake up from. On the other hand, included in that very same policy it declares that medi

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