[lbo-talk] what Americans find "morally acceptable"

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Mon May 19 06:37:55 PDT 2008


--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> % finding morally acceptable
>
> death penalty 62
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> doctor-assisted suicide 51

[WS:] It would be interesting to to know why the 11% think that involuntary death by an executioner is OK, but voluntary death by a physician is not. I see two possible interpretations - one that links acceptablity to the professional code of ethics (the Hippocratic Oath) and the other one that links it to retributive justice.

Wojtek



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