Assisted Suicide

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ziggy_encaoua
Number 531
Conspirator for: 15 years 45 weeks
Posted on: September 5, 2009 - 10:24am

Man jailed over dad's suicide gun

I don't believe the man in question should of been jailed

Libertarians usually automatically say that assisted suicide should be legal

However I think that assisted suicide isn't as black & white as some make out

I've left a rant on the liberty line on this ttopic which Gard might post up

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LysanderSpooner
Number 234
Conspirator for: 16 years 46 weeks
Posted on: September 20, 2009 - 9:11am #1

Ziggy,

Are you familiar with Thomas Szasz?  He is a Hungarian-American pyschiatrist and libertarian.  He supports an unqualified right to commit suicide but he opposed assisted-suicide on moral (not religious) grounds.

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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it

Learned Hand

In the past men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz

Relinquish liberty for the purposes of defense in an emergency?
Why? It would seem that in an emergency, of all times, one needs
his greatest strength. So if liberty is strength and slavery is weakness,
liberty is a necessity rather than a luxury, and we can ill afford
to be without it—least of all during an emergency.

F.A. Harper

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