Questions tagged [suicide]
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Are "finding the pain of existence unbearable" and "deciding that life is not worth living" the same?
I have tried to present my views regarding these two seemingly related phenomena.
(a) Thinking that Life is not worth living
When one "thinks" that life is not worth living, that is a ...
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How did Camus define his Absurd Reasoning?
Absurd Reasoning
Reflection on suicide gives me an opportunity to raise the only
problem to interest me: is there a logic to the point of death? I
cannot know unless I pursue, without reckless ...
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Are some narratives worse than death?
Are some narratives worse than death? I'm not talking about psychological or physical suffering, but narratives (what actually happens, as we understand that, as humans) that are worse than it just ...
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In 'quantum immortality', what is "survival" meant to entail?
I'm aware that it's meant to be a reductio, but have read - I think - someone saying that quantum immortality (QI) is not much of a panacea just because we will often be horrifically disabled by the ...
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What are the sources of popular Camus quotes?
I'm tracking down sources of Albert Camus quotes (because Goodreads can suck it). Who can add to this list? I'm not allowed to comment on this site.
"There is but one truly serious philosophical ...
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Counter arguments to benatar's assymatry argument's defence by Elias Muusavi
Elias Muusavi published a defence of benatar's assymatry https://shorturl.at/juvAF (if you wish to read it) in it they said that the absence of pleasure is "not worse than the presence of ...
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'I want to be with you in heaven'
If you knew that suicide is not immoral, would it be virtuous to kill yourself - not because you were in pain and needed to escape - but merely due to a wish to end yourself before you fell into vice?
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Kant and "the causes of living"
Once upon a time, I was thinking about the argument for the justification of mass civilian killing that is read off a sense of collective responsibility in "evil nations," and wondered:
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was Camus right in saying 'There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.'?
I think he was saying 'What makes life worth living?'. I do think that's important, but aren't other questions 'serious' too?
For me my topics I care about are meta/norm ethics, theology, metaphysics. ...
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Why I cannot consent to be killed?
My friend and I had an argument about the subject. He argued that in some circumstances it should be legal to consent to be killed (e.g. if the dominant kills the submissive during the BDSM session ...
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Is there a universal, timeless and deeply compelling reason to pursue anything?
Don Jack has a job, a few friends, often goes to the gym and has ambitious dreams of participating in life. Often he finds himself questioning whether he continues to pursue these things. The chain of ...
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Does a suicide understand what he is doing? [closed]
In the answer to the question on what religion is, I wrote
We, each of us individually, feel a sense of self worth, a sense that something of great value will be lost if we cease to be.
This led to ...
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Is failure to avoid certain death tantamount to suicide?
Looking for philosophical and/or religious perspectives (if allowed):
Let's say you have a machine that predicted, with absolute certainty, that I would be killed in a car accident if I drove my own ...
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Is it ok, according to Camus, to try to get someone else to commit suicide?
When is it virtuous to predicate your happiness on another person's suicide? What would Camus say about deliberately getting another person to kill themselves? Supposing that, rightly or wrongly, you ...
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The apparent and partial "sui-deicide" of the Christian god
For this topic and question, I've tried finding and learning from other sources online (for reasons of unintentional duplication here but more-so the intentional avoidance of posting something ...
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