
Episode #062 ... Kant pt. 7 - Suicide
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Is Suicide a Morally Permissible Act?
CNN's John Sutter asks: Is suicide a morally permissible act to you? Does an otherwise mentally sound, perfectly normal person have the right to take their own life if they want to? Plato talks about how we've been placed here as sort of like a punishment by the gods. To plato, it's not our job to decide when our sentence is over on this planet. It would be laziness or cowardice to ever relieve yourself of your duty.
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