Ishmael wrote:
Do you believe I am joking?
Hardly. This is my belief, it always has been.
In light of world events, poverty, drought, starvation, genocides, and, closer to home, family and friends (spitting on his parents, as airborne put it), and various resources that would be spent keeping alive someone who wants to die - if someone is arrogant enough to suggest throwing away the privelage of experience, in light of the cost to others, at that - they forfeit the right to live. Simply put; not good enough.
Incidentally, you can't actually 'forfeit your right' to anything. Rights are inalienable - that's the whole point of having them. You can forfeit your
privilege to live (assuming that this is a privilege and not a right - I'm not going to get into that argument). The point is: privilege and right are not the same thing. It is important that a distinction is made between the two.
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