Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.

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Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.

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RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.

December 11, 2012 at 6:09 pm

(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".

He may be a great novelist, but his argument here is shit. Paraphrased: "So that you do not limit your own freedom, we are placing limits on your freedom." Even if his analogy of life=freedom were true (and I think it is not), the latter (an external entity limiting one's freedom) is worse than the former (self-limiting one's own freedom).

Camus argues for a greater evil.

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Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Kirbmarc - December 11, 2012 at 3:41 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Something completely different - December 11, 2012 at 4:01 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Annik - December 11, 2012 at 4:01 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Kirbmarc - December 11, 2012 at 4:11 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Something completely different - December 11, 2012 at 5:32 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by genkaus - December 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Something completely different - December 11, 2012 at 6:28 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Jackalope - December 11, 2012 at 6:09 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by genkaus - December 11, 2012 at 4:56 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Welsh cake - December 11, 2012 at 4:59 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Faith No More - December 11, 2012 at 5:01 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Jackalope - December 11, 2012 at 5:09 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Kirbmarc - December 11, 2012 at 5:10 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Jackalope - December 11, 2012 at 5:19 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by genkaus - December 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Faith No More - December 11, 2012 at 5:18 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Jackalope - December 11, 2012 at 5:31 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2012 at 5:18 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2012 at 5:24 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2012 at 5:33 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Faith No More - December 11, 2012 at 5:34 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Jackalope - December 11, 2012 at 5:42 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Jackalope - December 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Dee Dee Ramone - December 11, 2012 at 5:40 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Faith No More - December 11, 2012 at 5:49 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Dee Dee Ramone - December 11, 2012 at 5:58 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2012 at 6:05 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by genkaus - December 11, 2012 at 6:08 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by The Grand Nudger - December 11, 2012 at 6:18 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by genkaus - December 11, 2012 at 7:03 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by The Grand Nudger - December 12, 2012 at 11:16 am

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by genkaus - December 13, 2012 at 3:49 am

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Faith No More - December 12, 2012 at 1:50 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by LastPoet - December 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by Brian37 - December 12, 2012 at 2:07 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by The Grand Nudger - December 13, 2012 at 5:59 pm

RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery. - by naimless - December 13, 2012 at 8:08 pm

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