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The taboo against suicide is necessary in order to maintain the taboo against suggesting other people kill themselves when they have become inconvenient to you,
by pjc50 1y ago
The taboo against suicide is necessary in order to maintain the taboo against suggesting other people kill themselves when they have become inconvenient to you, unfortunately. Like elderly relatives and difficult patients.
- Yeul 1y agoAnd yet people are supposed to charge enemy machine gun nests for king and country.
- octopoc 1y agoThe difference is, is it pro-social or not? Not whether it's good for the individual. Charging enemy machine gun nests is pro-social behavior, arguably. Killing yourself because you're in constant pain is anti-social. I'm just saying that social mores line up more with what is pro-social vs. anti-social, not what is good for the individual (which is more ambiguous anyway).
- immibis 1y agoThis is just a way of saying "is it good or not"? Pro-social is defined as "things I think are good", and anti-social is defined as "things I think are bad". Surely you agree that charging enemy American machine guns, if you're the Taliban, is antisocial.