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>I'd rather say that the urge to kill yourself is fundamentally irrational. How so? If there is little to no expected pleasure and considerable expected pain i
by throwawaylolx 7y ago
>I'd rather say that the urge to kill yourself is fundamentally irrational.
How so? If there is little to no expected pleasure and considerable expected pain in the foreseeable future, why is it fundamentally more rational to wait it out or "fight" instead of giving up? Both seem rational choices to me even if I'd choose the former.
- bayesian_horse 7y agoFor one thing the basis of that decision is a warped perception, if not outright psychotic. For another, a rational death wish can't really be reversed, especially not within minutes or hours, as seems to be the norm rather than the exception. We tend to rationalize irrational drives or motivations. But that doesn't make them rational. Depressives can and will try to prove to others why they have to die. But the basis seems to be more a neurobiologic function than an objective evaluation of facts.
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