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by morbicer 997 days ago
Exactly. Their body their choice. And if there are thousands of people going out this way it should be a trigger for society to do better and work on reducing the suffering.
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These maximalist individual freedom ideological positions always astound me. Like people haven't thought one step past "you should be able to trade with anyone, anything, and put it into your body." Should you be able to buy an instant feel-good suicide pill at the corner store? That way anyone who is having a temporary tough time has a one-way door to ending their entire life that future them would've been glad they hadn't ended?

We already see what a catastrophic mess there is when people can buy instant feel-good fentanyl pills that wreck the rest of their entire life.