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Demo Classroom Debate: Medical Ethics
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Selected claim, supporting its parent
From the communitarian conception of justice, making healthcare a universal right would benefit the most people.
Pros
Cons
Pro claim 1
"According to Daniel Callahan's communitarian account, we should enact public policy from a shared consensus about the good of society rather than on the basis of individual rights." (Principles of Bioethics, p. 258)
Pro claim 2
According to Roger T. Ames’s
Confucian Role Ethics
, justice must be understood in terms of what’s best for the community.
Con claim 1, children below
The communitarian conception of justice is only effective if it accounts for the well-being of all communities taken together, rather than weighing the values of individual communities against each other.
Con claim 2, children below
The notion of individual rights does not align with communitarian conceptions of justice. This framework focuses on the benefits of the community and so devalues individuals' rights.