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John weighs up the candidate values (think of overall weightiness as a final score):

VALUES

Candidate Value
Acceptability
(Yes/ No/?)
Relevance
(Yes/ No/?)
Importance
(1-5)
Overall Weightiness (1-5)
Stopping my mother's deteriorating psychological faculties
Yes
Yes
3

(important but these faculties likely to be diminishing anyway given mother's medical condition.
Also emotional health - how she feels about herself - more important than what faculties she actually has)
3
Protecting my mother's emotional health in general (not just depression from being in hospital), including such things as the fear and disorientation that might come from staying at home
Yes
Yes
5

(very important that my mother's remaining time is as happy and satisfying as possible)
5
My mother getting what she wants (in general, not just in avoiding hospital as she might have changed her mind about what she wants)
?

(some doubt over this as mother lacks full lucidity - how can she know about parts of her life which are not lucid - and furthermore she might choose an option, such as wishing to stay at home even after the chronic care place becomes available- which severely and negatively affects my life)
Yes
4

(Important moral principle that people have control over their own lives)
3
Satisfying my desire to broach the issue of permanent chronic care at home
No

(I'm not the best person to do this)
-
-
-
Protecting my mother's medical welfare.
Yes
Yes
5

(whether my mother lives or dies, and the quality of her medical health is obviously very important)
5
My life not being severely and negatively affected
Yes
Yes
5


(I am an important party in this problem so my interests should take equal weight with my mother's)
5
My life not being mildly and negatively affected
Yes
Yes
1

(While my life not being severely and negatively affected is important minor inconvenience to me is not)
1
My feeling that I've done all I reasonably can
Yes
Yes
2

(this is not of great importance - while feelings that I've done all I reasonably can matters a little, what is more important is actually doing what I reasonably can)
2

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