RE: Do we own our own lives? A discussion on the morality of suicide and voluntary slavery.
December 13, 2012 at 8:08 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2012 at 8:14 pm by naimless.)
(December 11, 2012 at 3:41 pm)Kirbmarc Wrote: My friend replied that if I were right, we should approve voluntary slavery. If we own our lives, we should be able to sell them, like any other item that we own.
I didn't (and still don't) have a strong argument against this conclusion, but I don't really like the idea of voluntary slavery being morallly acceptable.
So I thought to bring these questions to the forums and to see what other people think of it. Is suicide morally acceptable? Do we own our own lives? And if we do, can we sell them to someone else?
We do have voluntary slavery. It is called getting a job.
I don't believe our universe has an objective morality without a higher power from outside dictating it and if there is one, it is fucked up. Suicide is only morally wrong because the people who want to decide morals are so full of endorphins that they think they are on the same wavelength as the person who commits suicide. It hurts them to realise that the person actually wasn't just being grumpy or a cunt relative to their perception and was genuinely living against their will.
Free will is as illusionary as any god or drug. Our physical neurons decide before our conciousness kicks in and comprehends the morality of the action that just happened to us. And even that morality is decided upon by social norms/conditioning and depends on the environment you are brought up in. One may raise the argument of genetics having a part to play, but considering an environment of 13.7 billion years, the word environment takes it into account.
We can sell our lives. Again that is called getting a job.
