RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.
December 11, 2012 at 5:18 pm
(December 11, 2012 at 5:09 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: In my view, we don't. Only the person who's life it is in question has that right.
So, do you think that someone who has been depressed for two months and someone who has terminal cancer have an equal right to end their lives?
Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:The hard question that I am wont to ask is this: Why are we as a culture so uncomfortable with the logical conclusions that result from the concept of people owning thier own lives?
What would you do if you came home and one of you loved ones was dying on the floor from an overdose? You can call an ambulance and save their life, or you can acknowledge their right to take their own life and let them die. It's that instinct that most people would feel in that situation which makes us uncomfortable, in my opinion.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
