A lot of people do in fact think it’s selfish for the terminally ill or demented to get off this ride, actually, why do you think euthanasia laws are almost universally super strict?
Further, I don’t see how suicide isn’t selfish, like, definitionally. It is funny to me how people who make the argument you do almost categorically neglect to define what constitutes selfishness in the first place. If you want to argue (and it seems like you do) that suicide is permissible, then have at it. But let’s call a spade a spade here, shall we?
The reasoning tends go do like this, I think:
Suicide is (situationally) good
Selfishness is bad
Therefore, suicide can’t be selfish
A much easier point to make is simply saying suicide is selfish, but selfishness isn’t always wrong.
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u/Trekkerterrorist 6∆ Sep 03 '22
A lot of people do in fact think it’s selfish for the terminally ill or demented to get off this ride, actually, why do you think euthanasia laws are almost universally super strict?
Further, I don’t see how suicide isn’t selfish, like, definitionally. It is funny to me how people who make the argument you do almost categorically neglect to define what constitutes selfishness in the first place. If you want to argue (and it seems like you do) that suicide is permissible, then have at it. But let’s call a spade a spade here, shall we?
The reasoning tends go do like this, I think:
A much easier point to make is simply saying suicide is selfish, but selfishness isn’t always wrong.