Andrew4Handel

I don't agree with this but I was always told that humans were innately sinful and deserved to suffer. (Yes it was an unpleasant upbringing) I find th...

I'm highlighting the strength of peoples beliefs about the afterlife (as well as all issues related to assisted suicide.) I personally don't religion ...

I assume this doesn't apply to you but I was brought up in a hell and damnation church and household that believed the majority of people were going t...

You reject the efficacy of palliative care. Having a child is forcing someone to suffer. I have been forced to suffer in many ways since birth. If you...

This something I mentioned on the now deleted thread. There are gay men who's testimonies I can provide who identified as women and had their penises ...

May be you can use this thread to reframe the thread you want to start?

I think think there is a moral dilemma here. A person could vote for or not protest an assisted suicide bill that has negative consequences or is simp...

What does that mean? I don't have the right to somebody else's identity. Men don't have the right to women's rights and protections. Everyone in the w...

I did a thread on a similar topic if it is of any interest. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11229/changing-sex/p1

I suppose it is to do with allowing people to be released from severe suffering. But after palliative care has been explored preferably. I think my co...

My position on this has softened today. I could accept assisted dying in very specific cases where someone is terminally ill or who has a chronic incu...

This article about the Graham Mansfield case contains interesting information about the situation with Assisted suicide in Oregon. https://www.manches...

There is a lot about this case here: https://www.milwaukeemag.com/tender-is-the-night/ "In 2002, they were visited by Anne Wanzer, one of Kitty’s coll...

Here is some issues with the Canadian assisted suicide program. From The Guardian Newspaper. "Are Canadians being driven to assisted suicide by povert...

What are you referring to? Palliative care is not torture. Prolonging someone's life is not the definition of torture. Your position seems to contain ...

The would be great if it was true but it probably isn't. Peoples childhood probably profoundly effects their adulthood (that is another debate topic) ...

I would need examples of this "And the spouse who can't stand that any longer and helps the patient die, often commits suicide, too," can you cite one...

Arguments for Physician assisted suicide.: 1. Even with universal access to specialist palliative care, some dying people will still experience severe...

This is from a British medical association (BMA) document: Arguments against Physician assisted suicide.: 1. Laws send social messages. An assisted dy...

I grew up with a lot of hell and damnation and The sect I grew up in tends to believe most people are going to hell and most Christians are not true C...

I think autonomy does not make sense if you are going to kill yourself. You can't express autonomy once you are dead. Have you got an argument for aut...

Another issue I had was that I wasn't diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder until my early 40's and it caused me a lot of problems before then inclu...

The mental health services should be there to help improve a mentally ill persons life. They should in no way sanctioning suicide or rationalising it....

An anti assisted suicide law would have meant this young woman would still be alive and there would be decades left of her life in which to truly and ...

I don't have a desire to gun down children but the Nazis did. Atrocities happen because someone humans wanted to do them. It would be great if we had ...

But that doesn't apply to me. I have always been philosophically minded and responded with actions to my beliefs because I need to be motivated by goo...

As someone who has attempted suicide in the past I was deemed not mental ill enough to be sectioned. I am not sure how one gets oneself sectioned thes...

It was the Mothers child who was euthanised because of botched sex reassignment surgeries. There is a lot of details about it online. Here is another ...

That makes philosophy seem a bit like a game where people hold positions for fun or out of curiosity. I have actually lived as a nihilist (I won't go ...

The consequences of outlawing private property is more extreme than decriminalising homosexuality and witchcraft. I included Property being theft with...

It is extreme to go against the current wide spread acceptance of private property. By extreme I did not mean incorrect but making claims that would c...

There is the nocebo effect which is the reverse of the placebo effect where there is some evidence that mental attitude can affect health outcomes. Th...

My intuition is that our desires are governed by biology or something innate. I would need good evidence to make sacrifices for an unknown future. I t...

I grew up being told that the rapture was near. God was going to return to earth as Jesus Christ and The Saints would randomly float up into heaven. M...

Its hard to define but maybe an absence of sadness and a level of contentment. The absence of sadness is pleasurable in itself.

I am the happiest I have been as an adult.

You are making things up here. I mentioned this case:"A Paralympic army veteran told stunned lawmakers in Canada when she claimed that a government of...

What are your examples here? You don't personally have to value human life but I want to live in a society that values human life and doesn't endorse ...

I have not met a pessimistic child myself so it seems like it is not a disposition. It took a lot to make me pessimistic and now I am relatively optim...

Probably It probably has to be based on reasons and those reasons may include personal adversity and external insecurity.

The Wikipedia entrance is interesting. "Entropy pessimism" represents a special case of technological and environmental pessimism, based on thermodyna...

I don't believe their is a determinist causal chain. The future doesn't exist so you can't know what will happen next only speculate. Determinism seem...

I would think pessimism came after adverse circumstances. You can be selectively pessimistic about different things. I think that to be pessimistic ab...

He is an influential (his opinions seems to have softened recently in some areas.) I am concerned about the status of human beings in law and ideology...

I have faith in some people not others and faith in human reason to some degree. I favour general agnosticism about knowledge because one is not commi...

What about the crimes of Atheist and non theist regimes Like Stalin, Pol Pot and Chairman Mao and The slaughter of the French revolution? The current ...

This sounds like you are from The States. I grew up in a fundamentalist cult in England. I had religion all day every day until I was 17 from birth. T...

Everyone has a wide range of differing information they are exposed to that lead to different questions arising for them. People are entitled not to i...

I don't know what this issue is called but there is something about beliefs that can lead to infinities. For example if I believe that Paris is the Ca...

How can you disbelieve in something you have heard of with out any reasons? I have just started reading the SEP article on atheism and agnosticism by ...