the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctors

In Nazi Germany, German physicians planned and enacted the Euthanasia

Program, the systematic killing of those they deemed "unworthy of life." The
victims included the institutionalized mentally ill and physically impaired. Further,
during World War II, German physicians conducted pseudoscientific medical
experiments utilizing thousands of concentration camp prisoners without their
consent. Most died or were permanently impaired as a result. Jews, Poles,
Russians, and Roma (Gypsies) were the most common victims of experimentation.
After almost 140 days of proceedings, including the testimony of 85
witnesses and the submission of almost 1,500 documents, the American judges
pronounced their verdict on August 20, 1947. Sixteen of the doctors were found
guilty. Seven were sentenced to death. They were executed on June 2, 1948.
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1. Incorrect. You did not provide an answer.

A slippery-slope pattern of argument is fallacious when...

The correct answer was: d. There is no good reason to think that doing one action will inevitably lead to another
undesirable action.

Arguing that a lack of evidence proves something is the fallacy of...

The correct answer was: a. Appeal to ignorance

Medical ethics An ethical continuum or 'slope,' the impact of which has been incompletely explored, and
which itself raises moral questions that are even more on the ethical 'edge' than the original issue

Which of the following is an example of a slippery slope argument applied to assisted death?
a. Physicians sometimes are in error when they conclude that people are terminally ill.
b. Most patients are not qualified to make end-of-life decisions for themselves.
c. We should not approve of assisted death for any particular person because that will encourage more
such deaths and with less selectivity.
d. It is very difficult to bring legal action against physicians who provide assisted death because they
usually slip out of charges.

If we allow passive euthanasia, then we will have to allow active euthanasia too. There
isno real difference between allowing someone to die through the cessation of treatment
andkilling them through active means. In either case the intention of the physician is the
deathof the patient, and in either case the effect, the death of the patient, is the same.

In this example it is said that if we allow passive euthanasia (A), then we will have to
allowactive euthanasia (B), because there is no relevant difference between active and
passiveeuthanasia. Because the argument is saying that active and passive euthanasia
areequivalent, this is an example of the logical version of the slippery slope argument

- is used to instill fear, and to deter people from doing or choosing

certain actions.
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- focus is on the consequences of that event.
- YOU NEED TO HAVE A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT GOES DOWNWARD, THAT CRUMBLES DOWN NA MAY BIG
IMPACT ANG CONSEQUENCES
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POSIBLE AND MAS CONVINCING DIN YUNG COPNSEQUENCES NA I CACLAIM MO FOR YOUR EVENTS
- WEE NEED IT TO BE AS SLIPPERY AS POSSIBLE
- if there is any justification at all for what Duff and Campbell propose for newborns then there is
better justification for a similar policy with respect to children at any age
- argues that it is impossible to justify accepting A while also denying B – drawing a line at any point
between the two would be creating an arbitrary cut-off point that would be unjustifiable