RE: Atheists only vote please: Do absolute MORAL truths exist? Is Rape ALWAYS "wr...
February 21, 2015 at 2:39 pm
(February 20, 2015 at 7:04 pm)Nestor Wrote: ...you seem to be granting that a person can reject such "categorical imperatives" as "Life is preferable to death,"
I'm not sure that the categorical imperative is that "Life is preferable to death". Its to live your life by rules that can be universally applied. One of these rules is that people are means ends in and of themselves and they cannot be used or controlled to serve as means to any other purpose. If the purpose is upholding the rule that "Life is preferable to death, and therefore one ought not be allowed to take their own life", then any attempt to impose this virtue upon this person would require violating their most basic right. If people cannot be used as means to any other end, then their choice to die rather than live cannot be forced on them as a means to uphold a standard that was not set by them.