Please write an essay on ONE of the following topics: 1. In 2016, Canada became one of the few countries in the world to legalize physician assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. Do you think that voluntary euthanasia and physican assisted suicide is morally permissible and should be legal? Why or why not? Be sure to make strong arguments for your position, consider objections to your arguments, and reply to those objections showing why your view can withstand objections and is more persuasive.. You must use at least 2 of the articles on your syllabus, in the section on physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, critically in your essay. 2. Consider Finnis, Abortion and Health Care Ethics. Offer a critical assessment of the authors position and defend your own thesis. If you agree with the authors position, you are called to offer an original and substantive defence of this position that supplements the authors argument, entertain possible objections, and offer responses to these to defend your position. If you disagreement with the author, you should demonstrate what the author has wrong and why, as well as provide a defense of your counter-position. 3. Consider Tooley, Abortion and Infanticide. Offer a critical assessment of the authors position and defend your own thesis. If you agree with the authors position, you are called to offer an original and substantive defence of this position that supplements the authors argument, entertain possible objections to your arguments, and offer responses to these to defend your position. If you disagree with the author, you should demonstrate what the author has wrong and why, as well as provide a defence of your counter-position. 4. Do you think genetic technology and other bio-enhancement techniques should be used to enhance good traits? Why or why not? Be sure to make strong arguments for your position, consider objections to your arguments, and reply to those objections showing why your view can withstand objections and is more persuasive.. You must use at least 2 of the articles on your syllabus, in the section on genetic manipulation and bio-enhancement, critically in your essay. Length: 6 pages (this does not include your reference page), double spaced, regular font and margins. Full citations are required in APA format. Feel free to also bring in other relevant readings in the course to make your arguments, or other external peer-reviewed academic readings, that are not on the syllabus. Just be sure to cite!
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