Suicide: pros and cons

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 11:39:43 MST


Michael S. Lorrey commented on my statement,
> > Killing oneself means murdering someone who can't fight back.
> > How cowardly!
>
> Ah, JR, thats a bit of a reach. Just as a right to speak implies a right
> to choose to not speak, a right to live also implies a right to choose
> to not live. Restricting that enslaves the individual to the state.

Okay, don't call suicide cowardly. Come to think of it, many situations
could make suicide an heroic act. For example: Killing oneself so that one
doesn't become a burden or bankrupt one's heirs, and so forth.
Nevertheless, if one commits suicide in order to avoid more responsible
courses of action, then it does correlate to pusillanimity or something
similar.

There is another kind of suicide called Nirvana, the extinguishing of the
self.
That's another nightmare.

Stay hungry,

--J. R.
3M TA3

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"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and
me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for
the business of government; they have only a talent for getting
and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to
search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get
and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that
promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting
A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage,
and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen
goods."
--H.L. Mencken



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