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    Challenges→FDS's good ought to be sacrificed for the sake of the good of the life as a whole, as articulated by EAS in her advance directive.

    An advance directive that overrides the expressed present values of a valuing subject cannot claim authority on autonomy grounds without begging the question of which temporal self's autonomy is privileged.

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    Authority on autonomy grounds(as used in ethics)
    The right or power to make a decision based on the claim that it respects someone's freedom and self-determination.
    Temporal self(as used in philosophy of personal identity)
    You at a specific moment in time—recognizing that your values and preferences can change over different periods of your life.
    Valuing subject(as used in philosophy of value)
    A being (like a person or animal) that is capable of caring about, appreciating, or assigning importance to something.
    advance directive(End-of-life medical ethics and personal identity)
    A legal or medical document signed by a competent person stipulating what medical treatments should or should not be applied to that person in a future state of incompetence.
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    The right to freely determine one's own actions
    begging the question(Listed alongside equivocation as an example of a fallacy that highlights important issues in real-life arguing)
    A fallacy also known as circular reasoning

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