Assertion: passive euthanasia | /r/HasProperty | contradiction
Facets:
value: in terms
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Firstly, it claims that the distinction between active and passive euthanasia is in some way inappropriate: euthanasia is active by definition and hence “‘passive’ euthanasia is a contradiction in terms—in other words, there can be no such thing”.5
text: The Task Force’s paper does not itself contain any arguments for the claim that passive euthanasia is a contradiction in terms, and hence in what follows we will construct for ourselves what seems to be the best case in support of this view before subjecting it to critical assessment.