RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.
December 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2012 at 6:04 pm by genkaus.)
(December 11, 2012 at 5:32 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: The french writer and receiver of the nobel prize for literature (and one of my favorite novelists of all time) Albert Camus argued that life itself could be set equal to freedom and that therefor ending your own life is to end your own "freedom" and people should be prohibited from setting limits or ending their "freedom".
Except, right to freedom also means the right not to exercise that right - therefore, setting limits to your own freedom is a perfectly acceptable application of your right to freedom.
(December 11, 2012 at 5:32 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: Or one may argue with the idea of utilitarianism and say that a individual is bound to a social contract within his sociaty and therefor bound to not act selfishly by commiting suicide?
Firstly, that would depend on the terms of the contract. Secondly, suicide could also be a way to void the contract since after the person's death, the society is not obligated to fulfill any terms of the contract either.
(December 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm)Dee Dee Ramone Wrote: Suicide is not immoral because;
1 a person is mentally healthy > than I have no objection (but I won't come to your funeral...), euthansia is the solution, not suicide
2 a person is sick > sickness is not immoral.
3 life can't be owned, traded, claimes or whatever. Life is a fact, or not.
1. Whether or not you object does not make something moral/immoral.
2. Depends on the effect of the sickness on the person's judgment.
3. Facts can be owned, traded etc. and thus so can life.
