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Why medical professionals have no moral claim to conscientious objection accommodation in liberal democracies
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- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017Contempt for Conscience, Contempt for the ProfessionShow More
A major conceptual problem this paper suffers from is the suggestion that those whose views do not accord with the majority are, by default, not tolerable.
Such people, whom the authors assume are exclusively religious, are twice said to possess an idiosyncratic view of the universe. These remarks exclude the possibility that there might be good, even non-religious, reasons for conscientious objections. Moreover...
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