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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: guest39538 on 13/10/2018 11:12:40
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As title along with many other things....?
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Yes.
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Anyone particular in mind?
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Right and wrong are difficult to quantify to try and get some one to act as a suicide bomber to kill a political leader who is leading his country on a disastrous course might be a right course of action
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Terrorists, maybe. Otherwise, probably not the right way to take things. With most unpleasant people, it's best just to realise that while you can get away from them, they can't - they're stuck with themselves and their lives are hellish. That's why they're so nasty.
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Right and wrong are difficult to quantify to try and get some one to act as a suicide bomber to kill a political leader who is leading his country on a disastrous course might be a right course of action
If you are that sure that it's the right thing to do, you should do it yourself.
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This is a particulary important topic given online bullying where the bullies try to encourage their victim to commit suicide. More support required in this area.
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I had in mind of course the attempted assassination of A Hitler (20/07/1944) which might of led to a better outcome to WWII where the attempted assassin one of the few people who had access was considered as a potential future leader to valuable to lose.
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Generally considered a Bad Thing to try to persuade anyone to kill himself, but I think it is equally indefensible to bully anyone into staying alive if he genuinely wants to die. This is where the law needs a serious review. Suicide and attempted suicide are not illegal in the UK if you are sufficiently fit and compos mentis to make all the arrangements yourself. The problem arises always and only if you are so sick, disabled, distressed or mentally incompetent that you need help: it is a crime to assist a suicide.
So suicide is statutorily denied to those who need it most. In a marginal case, where someone seeks legal assistance (as with Dignitas) it has been argued that a third party purchasing your plane tickets or driving you to the airport, is guilty of assisting a suicide. Fortunately the Crown Prosecution Service has usually ruled that such prosecution would not be in the public interest thus establishing a sensible precedent that should be embodied in statute.
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Suicide and attempted suicide are not illegal in the UK if you are sufficiently fit and compos mentis to make all the arrangements yourself.
Hello Alan, isn't the quoted sentence contradictory ?
How could any person be considered compos mentis if they wanted to end their own life ?
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in my opinion it is wrong for anyone to even consider attempting to persuade someone else to kill himself/herself because suicide by itself is not something morally and ethically acceptable.
tk
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in my opinion it is wrong for anyone to even consider attempting to persuade someone else to kill himself/herself because suicide by itself is not something morally and ethically acceptable.
tk
I'm finding recently that many questions always seem to have several answers and the subject and question becomes a paradox answers rather than an absolute answer.
1) Does anybody have the right to dictate other lives!
2) Isn't it our responsibility to sometimes protect people from themselves because we have empathy!
Right or wrong is a difficult choice but there is one thing of which I am certain, committing suicide because somebody told you too or in the name of some cause, would be an act of self stupidity.
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It wouldn't be wrong if it would be done to bad people
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It wouldn't be wrong if it would be done to bad people
wrong.
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How could any person be considered compos mentis if they wanted to end their own life ?
Quite easily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany_Maynard
and many others.
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It wouldn't be wrong if it would be done to bad people
Death penalty, its been guilty of murder itself so many times.
How do you define encourage anyway, condoning it in the media or not stopping someone could be considered as encouragement.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/woman-29-died-euthanasia-clutching-13008980
That is a bit of a cat among the pidgeons i think