1. The slippery slope argument in favor of assisted suicide is easy to see and prove. Essentially, he says that if assisted suicide is allowed without any lines or divisions of principle, then we must allow assisted suicide in clearly serious cases like that of "a sixteen year old suffering from a serious case of love." not shared.” First, we must recognize the assumption made by the Supreme Court that it cannot draw any principled line between different cases of assisted suicide. We can assume that this assumption is made simply because the Supreme Court cannot propose lines of principle allowing it to legalize assisted suicide. Once we know the Court's underlying assumption, we can prove the validity of this slippery slope argument using modus tollens. Modus tollens says that if X then Y, and if not Y then not X. And by modus tollens we will prove that it is forbidden to authorize assisted suicide. In our case, X allows assisted suicide to patients without having any principled lines between good and suicide. and reasoning in bad cases, and Y allows assisted suicide in clearly bad cases. For the first case (if allows it. For the second case (if it's not Y then not X), we can see that if we don't allow assisted suicide for the clearly bad case, we shouldn't allow it for any reason ( good or bad) because there is no line of principle. which allow it in one case and not in the other. Therefore, we must not allow assisted suicide without making a principled distinction between good and bad reasoning.2. The philosopher's response to the above...... middle of paper ......icide for the terminally ill. This argument leads us to the conclusion that assisted suicide, the principle of terminal illness, should not be allowed either, due to its moral implications (choosing it because it is cheaper). This is morally problematic because it implies that a person has a lower value: a use value than a monetary value, and it is morally problematic because we cannot give a lower value to life, because this then devalues ​​life. And the debasement of life is intuitively bad. Works Cited James, Susan Dolandson. Deadly drugs cause uproar in Oregon. August 6, 2008. May 2, 2011. Debate: Assisted suicide. 2011 April 4. 2011 April 28 .