I think Hidalgo brought up some very interesting arguments. In his piece, Hidalgo argues, “the citizens of states that enforce unjust immigration restriction have duties to disobey certain immigration laws.” (Hidalgo 1) This idea reminds me of a concept that I learned in a history course, that legality can infer morality, but at times, the two can be independent of one another. In my class, we primarily looked at the Abolitionist period, in which at the time, slavery was a legal practice and people used its legality as a defense for their inhumane actions. While slave owners were not doing anything illegal in regards to the legal system at the time, \u00a0it is now looked back in history as a dark period and abolitionists are celebrated for their actions to prohibit the act despite its legality. I agree with Hidalgo that it is morally ok to disobey\/fight against laws; I think it is up to history to determine if those who stood by or fought the law is on the side of morality.<\/p>\n
Secondly, I found the Flanigan reading to be particularly interesting, as I had never heard an argument for this issue before. I agree with Dr. Flanigan that patients should be able to refuse treatment if they do not deem it necessary, however, I cannot wrap my head around justifying giving people the choice over what medicines to take. Flanigan quotes Bioethicist Robert Veatch, stating\u00a0\u201cThere is no reason to believe that a physician or any other expert in only one component of well-being should be able to determine what constitutes the good for another being.\u201d (Flanigan 581) I think there are some things in life that I think speaking to experts will always lead to better results than just doing something by themselves. From personal training to getting a wealth advisor to manage your portfolio for saving, I think people are always better off talking to an expert in the field. I think this is critically important when it comes to getting medicine. In the other two examples, people that go to the gym by themselves or invest their own money will typically make progress, but not at the same rate as an expert. For visiting a doctor, the consequences are much direr, and I think it is unrealistic to assume that more people would be better off not visiting a doctor and medicating themselves than visiting a doctor. Doctors have to go through extensive training that takes years, are more in touch with what is new in the world of medicine, \u00a0and have likely dealt with similar cases from past patients who suffered similar illnesses or injuries. While I agree that patients should have the right to refuse treatement, I cannot fathom a world in which society is better off by prescribing their own medicine because ‘they know their body better.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I think Hidalgo brought up some very interesting arguments. In his piece, Hidalgo argues, “the citizens of states that enforce unjust immigration restriction have duties to disobey certain immigration laws.” (Hidalgo 1) This idea reminds me of a concept that I learned in a history course, that legality can infer morality, but at times, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}