Hello,
Since this is a very lengthy topic, I will try to make it as summarized as possible:
Why you should never commit suicide:
Reasons for commiting suicide:
- You are looking out for your well being - your self-interest - self-love, etc.
- If the rest of your enduring life is evil, you should end it.
Complications with the above:
- If you apply this reasoning as a universality - everyone should kill themself. (Subjectivity aside)
- If you are looking out for your own self - to preserve your self - then you would not kill yourself. By killing yourself, you are truly seeking to leave a name for yourself or die anomicly - you make your purpose in life to die as a martyr in the name of X.
Why you should never lie:
Reasons for lying: (For the sake of easier explanation, I will use the example of borrowing money from someone and not paying back)
- Lie to get money and have no intention of paying back - maximize personal benefits while maintaining pseudo-trust relationship from other person.
Complications:
- In order to have people attend to your lies, they must trust you.
- However, you are engaging in activities to destroy trust.
- If this maxim was made into a universality - if everyone did this - there would be no trust in the world. (Slippery slope here now... omg end of teh wlrod!)
Why you should help the needy and care for others:
Reasons for not helping others:
- To prosper - to maximize ones benefits at the expense of others. (Marxists revolt now!)
Complications:
- You engage in selfish actions asserting that you are the only one who should engage in maximizing your own benefits.
- If this were a universal rule - no one would help anyone. (Another slippery slope)
Common Rebuttle:
- "I don't need help from anyone else!"
Complications with the above:
- You were an infant once. Try living on your own as an infant.
- Even as not an infant, imagine a world where you are completely on your own - not another living thing. You will die.
Common Rebuttle:
- [i]"I'm a (insert pseudo-intellectual label full of hubris here) - I do not care if I die!"
Response:
- Go kill yourself.
Serious Reponse: (That is usually ignored considering the type of person that would say the aforementioned)
- If you did not care to die - you should already be dead.
- If what you say is true - you should have no motivation to talk to me. ie. you should have never been saying this in the first place if you truly believed it.
Psychological reasoning:
- Attention whore.
Thoughts..?
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