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  3. If all forms of mercy killing are wrong, they should remain taboo. But are they? (46)Because many people accept that it is sad,

If all forms of mercy killing are wrong, they should remain taboo. But are they? (46)Because many people accept that it is sad,

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问题     If all forms of mercy killing are wrong, they should remain taboo. But are they? (46)Because many people accept that it is sad, undignified and gruesome to prolong the throes of death with all the might of medical technology, passive euthanasia—letting patients die—is widely accepted. Active euthanasia-killing remains controversial. How long can the distinction between killing and letting die hold out?
    Just as there can be culpable omissions, so too can there be blameless acts. Suppose that a man stands to gain from the death of a certain child. The child strikes his head in the bath and falls unconscious. The man sits down and watches him drown. The fact that the man has performed no action does not excuse him. Similarly, suppose that a doctor does no wrong by withholding some treatment in order, that death should come sooner rather than later. Is he then necessarily wrong if he uses enough painkillers to kill? Does the fact that the doctor performed an action, rather than an omission, condemn him?
    Many doctors working on the battlefield of terminal suffering think that no one should demand a firm difference between passive and active euthanasia on request. (47)Their argument for killing goes like this: one of a doctor’s duty is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it.
    (48)Some people believed that the time of death is appointed by God and that no man should put the clock back on another. Yet if a patient’s philosophical views embrace euthanasia, it is not clear why the religious objections of others should intrude on his death. (49)Another worry is that a legal framework for euthanasia, permitting a doctor to comply with a dying man’s request in a prescribed set of circumstances, might pose dangers for society by setting a precedent for killing. That depends on the society. Holland, arguably, is ready for it. It is probably no coincidence that it was Dutch doctors who most heroically resisted pressure to join in the Second World War Nazi medical atrocities that have given euthanasia its worst name. (50)The same respect for individual liberty that stopped them killing healthy people, who did not want to die, now lets them help dying people who do. Germany, by contrast, will not be able to legalize any form of euthanasia for a long time to come. Opposition is too fierce, because of the shadow of the past. Countries with an uninterrupted recent libertarian tradition have less to fear from setting some limited rules for voluntary euthanasia. By refusing to discuss it, they usher in something worse.

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答案当年荷兰医生出于对个人自由的尊重而拒绝杀害健康的、渴望生存下去的人们，今天正是这种同样的精神使他们用安乐死帮助不愿活下去的垂死病人。
解析 本句主句是The same respect now lets them help dying people。句中for individual liberty修饰respect，that stopped them killing healthy people是定语从句，who did not want to die是healthy people的同位语，who do修饰dying people，与前一个who did not want to die相对应。采用顺序法来翻译。难点有：individual liberty译为"个人自由"，翻译后一个who do时要将省略的成分补齐。
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