RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.
December 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm
(December 11, 2012 at 5:34 pm)Faith No More Wrote:Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:I found my mother dying of an overdose when I was 17. Of course I called an ambulance, and I'd do it again if the situation was repeated, regardless of what I think the rational implications of self-ownership are.
My apologies if I hit too close to home with my question, but my point was to illustrate that it is our instincts that keep us from being comfortable with complete self-ownership.
No worries, brother. It did hit close to home, but you had no way of knowing that it would, and while the memory is still painful nearly 30 years later, the memory can't harm me any longer.
In any case, I knew what I was getting into walking into a right-to-die thread. I put my big boy pants on first.
(December 11, 2012 at 5:34 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Perhpas another big part of it is our fear of death, and the fact that allowing people to take thier own lives makes us struggle with our own mortality. Some people just do not want to ever be comfortable with anything having to do with death.
Perhaps. If that were the case, I would argue that another's discomfort does not rationally give them right of dominion over that which does not belong to them. Of course, simultaneously, I recognize that I would not wish for people to kill themselves and would intervene.
Yep, I'm an irrational hypocrite. So?
