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Open Access
01-11-2010 | Short Communication
Euthanasia: agreeing to disagree?
Author:
Søren Holm
Published in:
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
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Issue 4/2010
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Abstract
In discussions about the legalisation of active, voluntary euthanasia it is sometimes claimed that what should happen in a liberal society is that the two sides in the debate “agree to disagree”. This paper explores what is entailed by agreeing to disagree and shows that this is considerably more complicated than what is usually believed to be the case. Agreeing to disagree is philosophically problematic and will often lead to an unstable compromise.