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To: Rambi who wrote (4400)	2/14/2003 11:08:46 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 7720

Nobody has specifically said they want to impose their views on others, true. But the fact of opposing assisted suicide on the argument that people SHOULD find life worth living, andthat only people who are not in their right minds seek to commit suicide, is in actuality saying that their views of the meaning and sanctity of life should trump the views of the person who chooses to die a more comfortable, more immediate death than they feel live has in store for them. Or is they simply decide to choose death to avoid the necessity of further living, but would prefer to do it in other ways than throwing themselves off of bridges or out of the windows of skyscrapers. There have been cultures in which an honorable suicide was an act of nobility. I personally don't view it that way. But I do understand that if I try to deny the right of suicide to those who do, iimplicity I am seeking to impose my values on them. This is part of the problem I have with Neo. He has a really well formed and coherent philosophy for how he should live his life. The problem I have with him is that sometimes he insists that because that is a well formed and coherent philosophy for him, it should be imposed on others. In the political realm, that is perhaps inevitable. But in the realm of personal life choices, such as suicide or not wanting to be treated for what others in society consider mental illnesses, I think it borders on a position of moral elitism, that I know what's best for both me AND you. I think I, too, have a coherent philosophy for how I should live my life -- or as coherent as life philosophies can be, given that we are humans and not machines. But part of my life philosophy is that what is right for me may well not be right for others, and that as long as their choices aren't imposing on my rights (and vice versa) we should each be free to follow our own paths, however divergent or different they may be and however much each of us may be ecstatic that we are NOT the other fellow!