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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (7089)	3/1/2001 10:47:09 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If no one else is harmed I have the right to kill myself. You can figure out all the specifics based on that, it doesn't seem to complex Well, it seems very complex to me. The word "harm" is fairly lenient. Some would say that one killing oneself has harmful consequences on all the imediate family, on the friends, on co-workers, and so forth. Others would go even further. Because it was you that coined the response, I thought it was only fair for me to ask you what limitations your definition envisioned. I did not want to guess--not only because I felt it would be assuming under the circumstances, but also because I did not want to have to be corrected in my understanding--over and over and over again. So I guess we can continue with an incomplete understanding. Your example shows that your idea of "harm" is grounded in a physical sense of injury, and apparently in a very direct and immediate relationship to the actions of the person killing him/her self. It follows from this that if the killing takes place (say) a mile from any other person, and occurs in a limited environment of (say) 10 feet--that you would agree that the killing was a right--inasmuch as you have just stated: "If no one else is harmed I have the right to kill myself"? I'm a bit slow sometimes, twofowler, and you have been very patient. Does this last statement represent an accurate summing up of your thought--in the specific area we have been discussing--vis-a-vis the right to die?