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Murdoch Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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In a recent article entitled, Requests "for inappropriate" treatment based on religious beliefs, Orr and Genesen claim that futile treatment should be provided to patients who request it if their request is based on a religious belief. I claim that this implies that we should also accede to requests for harmful or cost-ineffective treatments based on religious beliefs. This special treatment of religious requests is an example of special pleading on the part of theists and morally objectionable discrimination against atheists. It also provides an excellent illustration of how different the practices of religion and ethics are.
在最近一篇题为《基于宗教信仰的“不适当”治疗请求》的文章中，奥尔和格森声称，如果患者基于宗教信仰提出请求，就应该为其提供无效治疗。我认为，这意味着我们也应该同意基于宗教信仰提出的有害或成本效益不佳的治疗请求。对宗教请求的这种特殊对待是有神论者的特殊诉求，也是对无神论者在道德上令人反感的歧视。它还很好地说明了宗教实践与伦理实践有多么不同。
