I agree with you but I completely think that suicide is selfish. It is the most selfish thing a person can do. The KEY is that "selfish" ISN'T a bad thing!
I've been reduced to suicidal ideation by emotional trauma pretty recently. Events in my life undermined, invalidated and destroyed my sense of self to a point where I could only imagine asserting control over my "self" by terminating it. Frank Herbert said as Muad'dib, In Dune, of The Spice, "he who can destroy a thing controls a thing", and in the place I was, self-destruction was the only means I could imagine of controlling what happened to me.
Yes, suicide is selfish. It is the last desperate attempt by the ego at reclaiming self-control, at asserting self-determination.
The idea that "selfishness is bad" goes hand in hand with "life at all costs (except for those on death row and wars abroad, and quality of life for the poor and illegal)".
"Social justice" without "individual rights" is meaningless. Any social policy that undermines an individual self, directly or indirectly, is suicidal.
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Re: I wish I hadn't read the comments...
Date: 2011-01-06 11:42 pm (UTC)From:I've been reduced to suicidal ideation by emotional trauma pretty recently. Events in my life undermined, invalidated and destroyed my sense of self to a point where I could only imagine asserting control over my "self" by terminating it. Frank Herbert said as Muad'dib, In Dune, of The Spice, "he who can destroy a thing controls a thing", and in the place I was, self-destruction was the only means I could imagine of controlling what happened to me.
Yes, suicide is selfish. It is the last desperate attempt by the ego at reclaiming self-control, at asserting self-determination.
The idea that "selfishness is bad" goes hand in hand with "life at all costs (except for those on death row and wars abroad, and quality of life for the poor and illegal)".
"Social justice" without "individual rights" is meaningless. Any social policy that undermines an individual self, directly or indirectly, is suicidal.