Resolved: Self-harm (including suicide) is morally permissible.

Contention 1: Right of Noninterfearance. This contention was dropped and not refuted across the debate. This point is important as we can see that we shouldn't interfear in what they do as it's their own personal freedom and we, as society, want to advance or liberties want to expand it not shrink it. Contention 2: Suicide is contary to natural self love. Now first to counter the genocide argument brought up by my opponent. Though it is harsh and cruel it is still ethical (refuring to Social Darwinism), it is one's own natural preferance to prefer one's own race over another. The National Organization of Marriage or better known as NOM, has argued that is one's own natural preference to defend similiarities that one has which explains the defense of marriage and perfering one's own race over another. You can see that it's doing so is natural and since this is a natural thing anything other than that is not morally permissable. My opponent states that I have not properly refuted this argument, but I have indeed. If we observe Cholbi's disecting of Kant's argument here we can see that God has given us the self-ownership of our body. So we have every right to cut, stab, or even destroy ourselves as we could a watch. (Cholbi, M. , 2000, “Kant and the Irrationality of Suicide”, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 17(2): 159–176. ) I remind you that I had also brought up this argument in my second round of arguing. Contention 3: Suicide Injures the Community of which they are a part of. My opponents bring up the thoery of utilitarianism where the needs of the many outweight the needs of the few and tries to justify not not doing self harm or suicide because of this theory. There are many times in history that we have seen that the needs of the majority have led to terrible things. My opponent's justification of the majority over the minority can be used to justify slavery as it could better the economy and that the masters in the nation outnumber the slaves. While in the Triangle Trade days, slavery was justified by saving them from the terrible living conditions, converting them to Christianity, and bettering the economy and benefitting even the slaves to not doing it and harming multiple people. (. https://tylerquillin.wordpress.com...) I understand that utilitarianism is the greatest utility over the loss and slavery would meet that justification. (I’m not endorsing Slavery, but am just making this argument) You see we actually improved the lives of Africans by bringing them over here from Africa. The Slave trade took up place when tribal leaders would go to war and sell the defeated armies instead of killing them. So we firstly saved their lives. When we brought them over we gave them food, water, and housing. We also encouraged them to build a nuclear family on the plantation, though families were broken up often to build profit from sales. We also gave them a religion from their atheism or Muslim faith. The religion seemingly gave them a push to fight for freedom through their works as slave owners made promises if they met certain quotas that they would be free. The South also showed that the Slave in the South had it better than the freed black in the north by showing that in the north the freedman was poor, homeless, jobless, and starving, all things that slavery prevented. The North rejected them and it was obvious when the Civil Rights movement went north and the protests became violent. You can see that slavery is justified under utilitarianism and is a black spot. My opponent drops my key argument from my last round stating that if society has not done its duty to the individual the individual has the right to break the contract and is able to commit self-harm or suicide. My opponent also drops my arguments showing how self harm and sucide is justified when we save lives. Which is also justifiable under this moral system. Contention 4: Suicide Violates our Duty to God. My opponent says that it's immoral under God's moral system, however the BIble actually justifies self-harm and sucide in Matthews 5:29-30. "29 If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30"If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to go into hell. " As we can see in the above Biblical verse God states that it's okay to harm yourself to get rid of the sin and that you should do so to enter heaven. So we can actually see that this contention goes for me as if we do not do this you will be condemning more and more people to hell because of this.