Beyond Withdrawing vs. Withholding

Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “Withdrawing Versus Withholding Freedoms: Nudging and the Case of Tobacco Control”

“…A straightforward reason to prevent smoking might thus lie in an effort to prevent people from abridging their own future levels of freedom (Schmidt 2016a;Sen 2007). Finally, Kreitmair discusses whether my discussion can be improved upon by attending to the withdrawing/ withholding distinction in clinical contexts (Kreitmair 2016). In a footnote in my article, I list structural differences between my discussion and the discussion as to whether there is a moral difference between withdrawing and withholding treatments in critical care (Schmidt 2016b, n. 2).…”