We've been over this in the past. Out of the many reasons for suicide only one is a rational decision. The rest, an individual loses their right to make decisions on life and death matters.
Then ultimately human beings are nothing more than commodities, to be bought, sold, and traded as those in positions of authority see fit. Any given individual is nothing more than the equivalent of a trading card.
well, that is what YOU believe. and if human life has no value, than we can easily ignore any such "rights" that they claim to have.
if your life has no value and no meaning, any rights you claim to have are a joke. meaningless lives have no rights.
And yet even the most meaningless lives in the united states are still protected by the existence of laws, thus suggesting that to someone, somewhere, even the most meaningless of lives still holds some measure of meaning and importance, even if it is not to the individual that feels they are meaningless in a world of more than seven billion other individuals.
well that should change. anyone who views human life as useless and valueless, should be treated to the ultimate logic of their personal beliefs, regarding our laws and statutes. If someone believes human life has no meaning and no value, government and society is not obligated to respect their rights or privileges.
Meaning that individuals who are depressed and have no interest in living should simply be killed off because they view themselves as being worthless?
And yet it is how they view themselves, hence the decision to end their own existence as they see no point in continuing on.
Which is not actually relevant to the discussion at hand. Do try and stay focused, rather than attempting to change the subject of discussion to a preferable topic.
Remnants from a time when religion was prominent. In the present day, regressive public health worship. It is YOUR body. You should be able to hang shoot up heroin, smoke a pack a day, hang yourself, drink battery acid or pay anyone to do any of the above to you. It is YOUR body, not the state's. The state has no right to have you in good health.
Many of us would argue that wishing to be dead is a mental illness, and an insane person shouldn't be allowed to kill themselves.
How does an individual who is suffering from insanity, and ultimately removing themselves from the equation and society in general, not considered a good thing? Insanity is permanent and there is no recovery from such a condition. Those afflicted are condemned to a lifetime of suffering, needing constant care just to remain functional to an extent society deems acceptable, if at all. Forcing them to continue existing when they have no desire for such could ultimately be argued as a form of cruel and inhuman punishment.
Societies for all of time have made impositions on their members. Your initial hypothesis seems to be flawed in that you're assuming that just because we value personal freedoms, that we think those freedoms should be universal and unfettered. This is patently untrue. We, as a society, have agreed to put restrictions on our personal freedoms because we, as a society, think that those restrictions are "good for us". We don't have universal individual freedom. We never have and I suspect that we never will. We do have the freedom to decide, as a society, what we consider to be a right and what we don't. Currently, we don't believe that individuals should have the right to end their own existence. If you think that it should be a right then get out there and get to work.
