That's gotta be one sexy-ass keyboard.but it not as bad as it looks this keyboard i fucked
Waking up every day leads to unpleasant results for some people. "Life is suffering" is the first Noble Truth.i think the rationalisation of suicide might lead to unpleasant results
good preparation for the internal debate I'll be having tomorrow
its not a question of forcing someone to be alive tho, ppl are neither alive or they're not. the question is whether you want the state to rationally manage suicide. that seems extremely dystopian to me, irrespective of the underlying motivations of the ppl involvedWaking up every day leads to unpleasant results for some people. "Life is suffering" is the first Noble Truth.
My attitude is that forcing someone to stay alive who wants to die is as serious an infringement of human rights as killing someone who wants to live. The ethical difficulty lies in distinguishing a person going through an acute and potentially reversible depressive episode - a person who is likely to one day say "I'm glad I didn't kill myself", if they can be dissuaded or prevented from doing so at the time - from a person who is depressed for reasons that are very unlikely ever to change.
"Manage" is a weasel word. Brings to mind schedules, quotas, that sort of thing. That's very different from helping to make it a bit easier and less painful for someone who has already made that decision for themselves.its not a question of forcing someone to be alive tho, ppl are neither alive or they're not. the question is whether you want the state to rationally manage suicide. that seems extremely dystopian to me, irrespective of the underlying motivations of the ppl involved
This was the last we heard from muser, go well old friend.
Euthanasia should be illegal but if carried out nonetheless, judged humanely.
If you going to make a sufficient framework to judge someone humanely it might as well be legal.
Anyway, who says it has to be state-run, if that's your main beef with the idea? Dignitas is an independent non-profit. Last I heard, Switzerland isn't rounding up its sick and elderly into cattle trucks.its not a question of forcing someone to be alive tho, ppl are neither alive or they're not. the question is whether you want the state to rationally manage suicide. that seems extremely dystopian to me, irrespective of the underlying motivations of the ppl involved
What does that mean, though? Someone who fulfills the wish of their chronically ill partner should receive a charitably light prison sentence?Euthanasia should be illegal but if carried out nonetheless, judged humanely.
i think the rationalisation of suicide might lead to unpleasant results
"manage" is precisely what it is. the state cannot recognise pain or ease or even, ultimately, ppl. it's an abstraction."Manage" is a weasel word. Brings to mind schedules, quotas, that sort of thing. That's very different from helping to make it a bit easier and less painful for someone who has already made that decision for themselves.
Then I ask, again: who says it has to be up to the state?"manage" is precisely what it is. the state cannot recognise pain or ease or even, ultimately, ppl. it's an abstraction.