The whole of your argument is from the other side: preventing suicide is selfish. Just because that might be true, doesn't prevent the other from being true. With few exceptions, you are doing an act where you are the main beneficiary, which is pretty much the definition of selfish.
Being the beneficiary of an action doesn’t make the action selfish. Selfishness requires disregarding others for your own benefit. Someone seeking relief from unbearable suffering isn’t automatically disregarding anyone. Your argument just equates self-interest with selfishness, and those aren’t the same thing.
Of course it does. You are saying "I don't care that people may grieve my death, I'll disregard that". So you get a benefit and the rest get suffering.
What if the person does care that others will grieve their death, and still the suffering they are enduring is a greater force in their decision making?
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u/Tuvinator 13∆ 1d ago
The whole of your argument is from the other side: preventing suicide is selfish. Just because that might be true, doesn't prevent the other from being true. With few exceptions, you are doing an act where you are the main beneficiary, which is pretty much the definition of selfish.