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Deontology

Deontologist would contemplate that it is morally unacceptable for any hospital to deport an ill person even if that person was an illegal resident just because they can not find any nursing homes without insurance, as in the case of Mr.   Jimenez which he was injured in a car accident which lead to a sever brain damage deliberately deported by the Hospital back to his country just because he was an illegal and uninsured resident.   The act of the hospital infringes many chiefs that structure deontology.

      Dumping ill patients back into there countries just because they are not legally resident or they don’t carry insurance is wrong because it violate both the chief maxim (rules of conduct) in deontology.   The first is the categorical imperative which indicates to act only on the maxim that you would be willing to accept as a universal for everyone to comply with, which means that every hospital would be willing to dump severely ill immigrants back to there country just because they are illegal or not insures, and frankly not every hospital in the world would do that.

      Here is where the reversibility law comes into hand.   According to this law, in order for a person or an entity to accept dumping severely ill immigrants patients back to there country, he/them must be willing to accept the same fact, in another word they must put them selves in the same situation, as a severally ill immigrant with no insurance, working hard to support your self and you family back home, but the hospital decided to dump him/them mostly because of the insurance.   Furthermore, even if severely ill illegal immigrants want to be dumped back to his country, it still violates second chief maxim called practical imperative.   This maxim indicates that no individual what so ever should be treated as means only, but as end.   Therefore, dumping violate this law also, because humans life is far more important than money.

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