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    The absence of a rights violation does not settle the moral question of euthanasia

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    • 1.Rights violations are not the only source of moral objections
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    • 2.An action can be morally objectionable even if it involves no violation of rights
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    • 1.Within a Kantian deontological framework, rights exhaustively capture all morally relevant duties owed between persons.
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    • 2.If no right is violated in voluntary euthanasia, the Categorical Imperative generates no prohibition, settling the moral question permissibly.
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    • 1.Nozick's libertarian framework holds that rights function as side-constraints that fully define the moral boundaries of permissible action.
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    • 2.Once consent is established and no third-party rights are infringed, no residual moral objection survives within a rights-exhaustive moral architecture.
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    Nevertheless, Foot admits that the moral issue is not entirely resolved by the matter of rights, so it does not follow that there is no moral objection to doing something because it would involve no violation of rights. It is then a matter of whether it would be good for the person to die and, hence, whether it would be contrary to charity. This rules out cases in which death is wished for by someone who is facing a life of dependency because they are worried about being a burden on others. In s
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