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    It is not the case that The absence of a rights violation does not settle the moral question of euthanasia

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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