The phrase "a moral request" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a request that is based on ethical considerations or principles.
Example: "She made a moral request for everyone to consider the impact of their actions on the environment."
Alternatives: "an ethical appeal" or "a principled request."
The objective assessment of a patient's request, causation, intention, and moral responsibility reveal two additional moral fictions pertaining to the argument that turning off the medical devices in the hypothetical scenario of Adam and David would not be physician-assisted death.
Abortion, in Pollitt's view, must be seen not as a moral compromise requested by poor, weak women — we're sorry, and we promise we'll make it rare, but please, forgive us, we'll still need it in extremis — but as a positive doctrine of women's control over their own bodies, and of their own lives and destinies.
Abortion, in Pollitt's view, must be seen not as a moral compromise requested by poor, weak women we're sorry, and we promise we'll make it rare, but please, forgive us, we'll still need it in extremis— but as a positive doctrine of women's control over their own bodies, and of their own lives and destinies.
If the arguments canvassed so far are at all plausible, then it follows that respect for individual autonomy grounds a moral right not to be interfered with in requesting voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide, and that this moral right is not defeated by obligations that the individual making the request might have toward himself, or by considerations of human dignity.
In light of these realities, Duane Buck's request for a new sentencing hearing is a moral imperative.
Outrageous as that is, the requests for these exams do put doctors in a moral bind.
However, the assertion that the requests of Adam and David do not involve suicide is grounded in a moral fiction.
Unbearable suffering and a voluntary euthanasia request of a patient are apparently criteria that should be jointly fulfilled for physicians to experience a moral appeal that is strong enough to be willing to perform euthanasia.
(Fechner 1946, 242 6) Even if not personal, so long as it could be said that the universe exhibits a moral narrative structure there is no reason to insist that that structure be independent of the moral needs or requests of creatures within it.
