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To: one_less who wrote (3932)	1/21/2003 10:36:04 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

Legalizing suicide does not reject the legitimacy of being it establishes the legitimacy of non-being. If it is illegal to murder yourself could the person who drove you to it be charged as an accessory?

To: one_less who wrote (3932)	1/21/2003 11:42:09 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

But logically, I see no reason to legalize something that essentially rejects the legitimacy of being. The government doesn't legalize anything. It makes certain things illegal. But everything not illegal is legal. So the subset of legal things is defined as the things not made illegal. But I don't know any law that says "it is legal for you to . . . " The law doesn't say "it is legal for you to drive 31.3 miles an hour on this stretch of road." The law says "it is illegal to drive over 35 miles an hour on this stretch of road." Everything was legal before the first law was passed.