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The suicide part of assisted suicide is like watching a man on fire jump out of a burning building. Sin? Mistake? Wrong? I don't know, I might think so but
by hackeraccount 4y ago
The suicide part of assisted suicide is like watching a man on fire jump out of a burning building. Sin? Mistake? Wrong? I don't know, I might think so but I'm not the man on fire and I don't want to pretend like I am.
The assisted part is someone pushing a man on fire off of a building. It might seem odd looked at rationally (What the heck, the man might have jumped on his own.) but I still feel comfortable saying there's something wrong here. I can't believe the only or best response is to shove him off. If by some horrible confluence of events then I would be putting all future efforts towards figuring out a better way to deal humanely with the same situation in the future not putting a set of long sticks on the rooftop so that future pushers would have a smaller chance of getting burned.
- hackinthebochs 4y agoDon't know why you got downvoted but I appreciated your comment for what that's worth. Shows a good deal of epistemic humility and self-awareness. Something severely lacking in these kinds of discussions.