Alpes a Septentrionali imperium wrote:Purgatio wrote:
I've pointed out before how ridiculous it is to argue that you cannot kill yourself because your family will be sad. This is an open-ended argument against any bodily autonomy or sovereignty. Simple example - if a homophobic family would feel sad if a family member has gay sex, would you also argue that that gay family member now has a moral obligation to never have gay sex simply because it would make his family sad? This is a twisted view that effectively subscribes to family ownership of their members' bodies and lives.
So you're justifying that suicide should be a bodily autonomy and that you shouldn't care if anyone is effect by it, by comparing it to homophobes learning that a relative's gay. That's like comparing apples to oranges because guess what. Sexuality and suicide are extremely different things and just because they have the same effect, it turns out the effect happens for very different reasons.
The principle is the same, your family doesn't own you or your body. You are a free, rational, moral agent, possessing the capacity for rational cognition and individual self-determination, to decide what happens to you, to use your body for whatever ends and desires you decide to pursue. If a person decides, in the exercise of his autonomy and self-determination, to end his life, that is his business and none of us have the right to tell him otherwise.
