J. Budziszewski

About the author: J. Budziszewski is an associate professor in the departments of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

Supporters attempt to justify euthanasia on the grounds that it is done with good intentions. However, there is a fallacy in this argument; to kill oneself or someone else is wrong, regardless of the motivation or circumstances. Rather than being motivated by good intentions, attempts to defend euthanasia are founded on corrupt values. Society must strive to understand why euthanasia is wrong and why it cannot be justified by good intentions.

Historians will write that by the last decade of the twentieth century, great numbers of men and women in the most pampered society on the earth had come to think it normal and desirable that their sick, their weak, and their helpless...