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Fleming John |
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To kill or not to kill : euthanasia in a society with a cultural death wish / / John Fleming |
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London : , : Austin Macauley Publishers, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1 online resource (427 pages) |
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Euthanasia - Religious aspects |
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Intro -- To Kill or Not to Kill -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword 1 -- William J. Tighe -- Foreword 2 -- David Flint -- Introduction -- What is at stake? -- The long march through the institutions includes the Church -- The Long March over the precipice -- Chapter 1 -- Euthanasia and Traditional Codes of Medical Ethics -- What is Euthanasia? -- The Crucial Roles of Intention and Motive in the Moral Act, or "I Purposely killed Bill Because He was Having an Affair with My Wife!" -- Euthanasia by Omission of Reasonable Care -- Euthanasia by Omission in Australia -- What's the point of tube feeding? -- How the starting point conditions the Judge's final decision -- When is a Drug Not a Drug, and Does it Matter? -- Who gets to say what palliative care really is? -- Contemporary Medical Ethics and Killing? -- World Medical Association Resolution on Euthanasia -- Traditional Codes of Medical Ethics and Euthanasia -- Implications for the Medical Profession -- Alternative persons who might carry out euthanasia -- Chapter 2 -- History? You Can Take it or Leave It! -- Bridges -- Chapter 3 -- Secularism - Both Religion and Ideology -- Religion or Belief? -- Ideology: part reality and part illusion -- When God is Dead! -- The Decline in Religious Adherence and Practice -- Secular - What Does it Mean? -- Liberty or Progress? -- The Loss of Moral Language and Moral Distinctions -- Politicians and Their Beliefs -- "Free Speech" In the Modern Liberal Democratic State -- Freedom, Religion, Conscience vs |
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the Arrogant Utopianism of Left Liberals -- The Hypocrisy of "Inclusion" -- Folau - the Next Chapter -- Peter Singer and Israel Folau -- Off to Court We Go -- The New Atheism: An Exercise in Ideological Rigidity -- Be Careful What You Think - You May Need to Be Re-Educated!. |
Secularism: A Religion or System of Beliefs -- The New Reality -- Chapter 4 -- Secularism's War Against Family, God, Church and Reason -- Secularism's War against the Family -- Secularism's War against God and Christianity Pitting Reason against Faith -- Faith Needs Reason as Reason Needs Faith -- Religion is Practiced both Publicly and Privately -- Christianity and the First Hospitals -- God of the gaps: science versus religion -- Dawkins Misrepresents St Augustine as Being "Anti-Science" -- What Marxists and Liberal-Democrats Have in Common? - Ideology! -- There is no Proof God Exists - The Default Position of Atheists -- Can Something Come from Nothing? -- Fair-Minded Atheists -- Chapter 5 -- When Ignorance is a Virtue -- Atheism and Belief in God -- Atheism versus Religion -- Religion as Mental Illness - the New Totalitarianism? -- Religion as the Major Cause of Wars - Bunkum! -- Jesus Did Not Exist Say Hitchens and Morris -- Brian Morris Rejects the Historicity of Jesus -- The Biblically "Illiterate" Christopher Hitchens -- Scientist Peter Atkins Dismisses the Resurrection of Jesus -- Did Jesus Rise From the Dead? -- A Recommendation for Those Genuinely Seeking the Truth -- Peter Atkins' "Theism" -- The Atheism of the Alt-Right -- Chapter 6 -- Church and State - Separation or Cooperation? -- Australian Constitution Protects the Church from the State -- Totalitarian Temptations in Utopia -- Chapter 7 -- Élites Undermining Democracy: Judges, Politicians, Educators and Journalists -- Who makes the law? -- Who Governs Australia? -- Vocal Élites: "Fear the People!" -- Who is Responsible for Making Law? -- Judicial Activism in Australia? -- Politicians and the Media Exploit Religious Bigotry -- Chapter 8 -- The Attitude of Australian Citizens to Making RU486 Legally Available -- The Inalienable Right to Life: But Only for Some?. |
Defending Human Rights Post World War II -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) -- Universal Agreement on Basic Human Values -- Religion -- Consensus Gentium -- Agreement of the People -- The Human Failure to Honour Human Rights -- What Are "Inalienable Rights"? -- Empirical Evidence for Slippery Slopes -- Euthanasia as Practised Illegally in South Australia -- Research Evidence in Australia as a Whole -- Australian Surgeons and Euthanasia -- Extending the Boundaries for Euthanasia in the Netherlands -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands 1984-1990 -- Dutch Euthanasia Continues to Rise -- Pathway to Legal Medical Killings: Machiavellianism at Work in the Victoria State Task Force -- The Keown Critique of the Victorian Parliamentary Committee Report -- What about Other Australian Research? -- Victorian State Government Planned to Legalise Euthanasia -- The Right to Life Is an Inalienable Right -- Euthanasia Undermines Suicide Prevention Programmes -- Chapter 9 -- Belgium: Sliding Down the Euthanasia Slope -- Legal Control of Euthanasia -- Administration of a Lethal Dose without Explicit Request from the Patient -- Increase in Numbers of Cases of Euthanasia -- Widen the Scope: Euthanasia for Children -- Chapter 10 -- Eugenics -- Let's Start by Denying We Have a Problem -- Eugenics Persists Into the 21st Century -- A Brief History of the Eugenics Movement to the Present Time -- Population Planners are still at It -- The Enlightenment and the Perfectibility of Man -- Mid to Late 20th Century Eugenics and Onwards -- The Link Between Abortion and Eugenics -- A Glimpse at Future Eugenic Proposals for Utopia -- Denying the seriously disabled are human -- Linking Compassion with Killing -- Eugenics in Australia - Melbourne the Epicentre -- Connection between Eugenics and |
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Voluntary Euthanasia in the Third Reich. |
From Eugenic Abortion to Infanticide to Euthanasia -- Philosophical "Beliefs" About When a Human Being Is a "Person": The Secularists' Weapon of Choice -- The Real Intentions of Proponents of Euthanasia -- Chapter 11 -- Power without Responsibility -- What are the Responsibilities of Members of Parliament Bearing on the Question of Euthanasia? -- Politicians, Pious Platitudes and the Secularist Ideology -- Have we forgotten Aboriginal persons and the Northern Territory experience? -- Euphemisms and Legislation -- Polls -- The Real Motives and Intentions of Euthanasia Advocates and Slippery Slopes: Invoking the Principle of Personal Autonomy to Annihilate Personal Autonomy -- In Short -- Entertainer Andrew Denton -- Andrew Denton's Philosophical Beliefs -- "We're the Land of Neighbours, Not Nazis" (Andrew Denton) -- The Law in Relation to Assisted Dying -- Weasel Words and Euphemisms Mask Reality -- Euphemisms Have Many Purposes but Mainly to Deceive -- TV Entertainer Andrew Denton Only Wants Legal "Assistance in Dying", Not Killing! -- Denton, Hard Cases and Palliative Care -- What is Palliative Care? -- The Painful Death of Kit Denton -- Transference -- The Case of Liz Le Noble -- Euthanasia and Hospice Care -- Denton's Atheistic Rant -- Essential Elements of Denton's Case -- Chapter 12 -- Remake the Culture! - Capture the Language! -- Moral Relativism - Incoherent and Dangerous -- Non-Judgementalism and Marriage "Equality" -- The Sexual Revolution -- Replacing "Sex" With "Gender" -- Intersex Persons -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3. |
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UNINA9910557261903321 |
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Ma Ying |
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Biotechnological Potential of Plant-Microbe Interactions in Environmental Decontamination |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Botany & plant sciences |
Science: general issues |
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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact |
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