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Is it wrong not stop people from commiting suicide?

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famousringo on 29 November 2011
Chrizum said:
famousringo said:
There's morally permissible and then there's morally optimal. Quite a few moral codes would find allowing somebody to kill himself permissible, but pretty much all of them would agree that stopping him is morally optimal.

To put it another way, it's not wrong if you don't stop a suicide, but it's most right if you do.

There is no such thing as an absolute moral code.


You'll note that I used a plural there. If I acknowledge more than one, it's implied that no one of them is absolute.

I'm not looking to get into a debate on moral absolutism vs. relativism. I'm not even sure if I have a position to argue in that debate, since both ideas seem to have their share of problems.



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KBG29 on 29 November 2011

Personally, I never for any reason get involved in other peoples business. I would never think twice about a suicide, and I definitely would have never interfered in the first situation.

There is no right answer written in stone, so it should not be against the law.



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miz1q2w3e on 29 November 2011

It would be wrong not to at least try and talk them out of it imo



JoeTheBro on 29 November 2011

Atleast in America, it would have been illegal for you to let him die. This law was created when a man was mugged in NYC and it took 40 minutes for someone to call 911, even though thousands passed by on the busy street.



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kopstudent89 on 29 November 2011

NO!!!! Ofcourse not :S



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Chrizum on 29 November 2011
famousringo said:
Chrizum said:
famousringo said:
There's morally permissible and then there's morally optimal. Quite a few moral codes would find allowing somebody to kill himself permissible, but pretty much all of them would agree that stopping him is morally optimal.

To put it another way, it's not wrong if you don't stop a suicide, but it's most right if you do.

There is no such thing as an absolute moral code.


You'll note that I used a plural there. If I acknowledge more than one, it's implied that no one of them is absolute.

I'm not looking to get into a debate on moral absolutism vs. relativism. I'm not even sure if I have a position to argue in that debate, since both ideas seem to have their share of problems.

I know, but your conclusion impies there is a right way and a wrong way, which is false. But I agree, let's not get into a messy debate.



Nightwish224 on 29 November 2011

I do personally feel it's wrong if someone can't physically or mentally intervene. They're are too many things in life to miss out on..... but then again, not everyone has that opportunity. Spending some time with seriously ill patients could possibly change their minds.



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Areym on 29 November 2011

Let them. If they think their life is so worthless that they can just throw it away after a bit of a reality check, let them. I've had friends say that they have contemplating suicide. I would not stop them, it's their life, their decisions. However, if they are drunk/high/stoned and they are about to do something suicidal, like jump from high place, try to jump over a moving car, dumb shit like that, I'll be the first one to step in.

I really hate people like that. My best friend told me what i thought of him committing suicide, I told him that I would lose any respect I had for him and I would simply forget i ever met him. I don't wanna remember that somebody whom I consider a brother and that I look up to would do something so fucking stupid as to commit suicide (unless of a terminal illness, completely different scenario).



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kopstudent89 on 29 November 2011

I just can't think how you can let someone take his/her life in front of you. Of course I'd talk them out of it, or even physically stop them! It's my instinct that will react not my mind in this case



Level1Death on 29 November 2011

No.