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ATTN: People who think laws against suicide are stupid.


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On the free will front: chemistry and physics say that, unless some part of the human brain is magically exempt from all natural laws of the universe, you have never had free will.

 

The only way suicide can be punished is if the one trying to commit suicide fails

 

One problem: there's a perfect defense that has been proven before the trial has even begun.

 

Can't someone name that defense?

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On the free will front: chemistry and physics say that' date=' unless some part of the human brain is magically exempt from all natural laws of the universe, you have [i']never[/i] had free will.

 

The only way suicide can be punished is if the one trying to commit suicide fails

 

One problem: there's a perfect defense that has been proven before the trial has even begun.

 

Can't someone name that defense?

 

lolINSANITY!!!. You'd probably need some court experience to pull it off though.

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DEP finally got it. An insanity plea will always work. It has been proven to be true by the mere fact that you attempted to kill yourself. Faking it is not necessary; because you wanted to and tried to end your own life, you are, by definition, not sane.

 

But what on earth is the purpose of having a law that can never convict anyone?

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The man under sentence of death is freer than the man who takes his own life. The Suicide is a coward' date=' he is one that abandons the struggle with fate; the Condemned man, however has the chance to rise above the society which has condemned him and by his courage and intellectual liberation to nullify it. The egotism of suicides with their farewells and resentments is sometimes grotesque, the dignity of a brave man on the Scaffold never. In his words, the precise opposite of the suicide is the man who is condemned to death... The God-like disponibility of the condemned man before whom the prison gates open one day just before dawn, his incredible disinterestedness about everything except the pure flame of life, here I am quite sure that Death and Absurdity are principles which generate the only rational Liberty- that which a human being can experience with body and soul.

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