I live in NSW Australia, in which the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2022 will come into effect by the end of 2023. This will legalise voluntary physician-assisted suicide for those with a terminal illness (it has various conditions and safeguards embedded within it). Despite this inevitable legal change, I believe there is value in ongoing moral reasoning,...Read More

I am reading a book by Dr Graeme McLean called Ethical Basics for the Caring Professions in which he devotes a chapter to the fact that there are different moral beliefs and attitudes across different groups of people and cultures. What are we to make of this? Is morality therefore relative? This question and Graeme’s treatment of...Read More