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yet in a fit of temporary insanity, contrary to your own personal beliefs you decide to kill yourself in the heat of the moment
After the state saves your life, you are grateful becuase it was only a temporary weakness you had not desire to make it a permanent solution
is it still wrong?
I think that's the most common scenario regarding suicide, actually. A desire to make the pain stop as opposed to a desire toactually die, which to me is why we should work to assist suicidal with the former while trying to prevent the latter. Suicide is, after all, "a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
Just to get it straight, by attempting to stop him/her you would be violating his/her right to end his/her life.
Correct?
The conversation is an outgrowth of a drug-legalization thread. Should the state recognize the right of a person to take illicit, harmful drugs that will eventually lead to his death?I don't see how the legality of it is really a factor. They're dead... WTF you gonna do? Punish their corpse?
The conversation is an outgrowth of a drug-legalization thread. Should the state recognize the right of a person to take illicit, harmful drugs that will eventually lead to his death?
The conversation is an outgrowth of a drug-legalization thread. Should the state recognize the right of a person to take illicit, harmful drugs that will eventually lead to his death?
Drugs do not cause anything to happen to people who do not ingest them. Perhaps the people who do ingest the drugs cause pain, but that is the responsibility of those people, not of the drugs.No. Because drugs can cause more pain for others than just the user. Including lives other than the users.
Unless I'm mistaken, the ultimate rationale for drug laws in this country is that they keep people from killing themselves with drugs. If that is indeed the case, the two arguments are inextricably linked.Really separate arguments.
A person who commits suicide is dead.
A person who regularly consumes large doses of harmful drugs often spends many years varying between useless and outright dangerous before becoming dead.
It's like the difference between a suicide and a suicide bomber, in slow motion.
Are you trying to appeal to numbers?Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh good for you (christian bale)
1 saved out of how many suicides that year?????????????????
yeah, that is what i thought
You would make a good politician, you're good at evading questions. If you won't answer my previous question then please answer this one, would you rather have a person be in a mental institute their whole live or let them end their life if they were depressed for a very long time? This isn't a trick question I just want to know your opinion and where you stand on this issue.
With the thousands of possibuilitys that exist as to why a person would want to kill themselfs how do you know it's "a permanent solution to a temporary problem."
What about a paraplegic who does not want to live paralyzed.
An 80 year old man who has no family.
A drug addict who has lost everything and is looking at prison for at least 20 years.
Not all problems are temporary.
A person that drink alcohol or smokes a cigarette is not doing it because he wants to die.Do I want the state to make suicide, drugs or booze illegal? The former pair already are, of course, but...
To be fully consistent we'd need to make alcoholism a crime also, since it is a self-destructive behavior. Also smoking, and overeating, and and and...
I don't like that line of progression... but I'll admit I don't have a good answer to this question.
I challenge you to show where did I speak about anyone getting punished.Suicide is an extremely selfish and cowardly act.
That said, how is it supposed to be punished? The death penalty?
Punishing attempted suicide will only encourage suicide attempts to be more successful.
And what about the common person?I think terminally ill patients should have the legal ability to end their suffering.
A person that drink alcohol or smokes a cigarette is not doing it because he wants to die.
A person that hangs himself up or jumps off the roof of a tall building pretty much does it in order to end his life.
And what about the common person?
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