>> I neer understood why suicide should be a crime; how are they going to punish e perp? <<
So the livestock doesn't escape. They rely on intimidation, punishing relatives, or punishing people who made the attempt but did not succeed.
>> But many states now have "assisted suicide" laws, for someone who is already dying of a painful and eventually fatal disease, to be "put out of their suffering".<<
Better than nothing, but it still impedes the free passage of a soul into and out of incarnation. You don't have a right not to be in pain. People can put you through any amount of torture, and it's not legal to escape unless an illness will already kill you very soon. It doesn't cover dementia, a leading reason why people wish to abandon a body, nor nonfatal chronic diseases that make living an utter misery. So people do what they've always done when they run out of cope: they just break the law.
>>And given how many states in the US have legalized cannabis, without there being epidemics of crime in those states, I think we've learned that there ARE sane, relatively harmless ways of giving your brain a bit of a vacation.<<
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Date: 2025-06-23 08:44 am (UTC)So the livestock doesn't escape. They rely on intimidation, punishing relatives, or punishing people who made the attempt but did not succeed.
>> But many states now have "assisted suicide" laws, for someone who is already dying of a painful and eventually fatal disease, to be "put out of their suffering".<<
Better than nothing, but it still impedes the free passage of a soul into and out of incarnation. You don't have a right not to be in pain. People can put you through any amount of torture, and it's not legal to escape unless an illness will already kill you very soon. It doesn't cover dementia, a leading reason why people wish to abandon a body, nor nonfatal chronic diseases that make living an utter misery. So people do what they've always done when they run out of cope: they just break the law.
>>And given how many states in the US have legalized cannabis, without there being epidemics of crime in those states, I think we've learned that there ARE sane, relatively harmless ways of giving your brain a bit of a vacation.<<
No shit.