Purgatio wrote:Geneviev wrote:People shouldn't be encouraged to do things that are certain to harm people. That does include suicide.
Except your definition of "harm" is "any time you make a choice over your own body that makes someone else sad" which, if true, means you are prevented from doing so many things over your own body and over your own life. Whatever choice you make over your body, someone out there is going to be sad. If you have gay sex, someone is sad. If you decide to never get married and have children, someone is sad. If you decide to get tattoos or piercings, someone is sad. Whatever you do with your body, you have the potential to make someone out there sad. But "hurt feelings" is not an argument that you can wield to stop someone else from making a personal choice over their life and body.
Harm is actual harm. If someone is offended by something, it isn't causing them to actually suffer.