Sub Point B.

Schroeder explains that sacrificing rights to preserve life produces

authoritarianism.
(Schroeder, Christopher H. Professor of Law, Duke University; Visiting Professor of Law, UCLA 1985-
86, 1986, Columbia Law Review, Rights Against Risks, 86 Colum. L. Rev. 495)
Actually, expanding the idea of preservation to include bodily integrity on the basis of
quality of life considerations has already pointed the way to a more realistic statement of those individual characteristics worth
protecting. The same considerations of quality of life counsel recognizing some freedom of action and initiative within the definition
of the morally relevant aspects of the individual. Doing so is consistent with a long political and
philosophical heritage. 90 Deeply ingrained in practically all theories of the rights tradition is the vision of a person as
capable of forming and entitled to pursue some individual life plan. 91 Given this vision, placing survival or bodily
integrity absolutely above all other ends would be tantamount to saying that the life
plan that one ought to adopt is that of prolonging life at all costs. That idea is
unacceptably authoritarian and regimented. It would be extremely anomalous for a theory supposedly
centered on the autonomy of the individual to result in a conception of justice that
constrained all individuals to a monolithic result. Individual human beings want more
from their lives than simple bodily integrity, and the conception of an individual, of what defines and constitutes
a person, as so limited is peculiarly impoverished. Individuals are capable of formulating and pursuing life plans, of forming bonds of
love, commitment, and friendship on which they subsequently act, of conceiving images of self- and community-improvement. Some
of these may directly advance interests in human survival, as when dedicated doctors and scientists pursue solutions to cancer or
develop chemical pesticides with a view to assisting agricultural self-sufficiency in developing countries. Some may dramatically
advance the "quality of life," rather than survival itself, as when Guttenberg's press made literature more widely available or when
Henry Ford pioneered the mass production of the automobile. However, even individual initiatives of much less
demonstrable impact on the lives of others constitute a vital element that makes
human life distinctively human. A just society ought to understand and value this element both in the concrete
results it sometimes produces and in the freedom and integrity that are acknowledged when individual liberty to conceive and act upon
initiative is respected.