Assisted Suicide Laws should be Universal

Their imagination of a better world is a continuation of the ascetic ideal. This association of all that is good as not of this world expresses a hatred for the only one we’ve got—turns case. Fantasizing about a world without suffering produces creative impotence---only our relationship to life can escape this paradox of resentment. Turanli: “to imagine another, more valuable world is an expression of hatred for a world that makes one suffer … Escaping from this world because there is grief in it results in asceticism. Paying respect to the ascetic ideal is longing for the world that is pure and denaturalized. Craving for … a … perfect world, is the result of the ressentiment of metaphysicans who suffer in this world. … The … philosopher … continues to repeat, "'My kingdom is not of this world'" … This is a longing for another world in which one does not suffer. It is to escape from this world; to create another illusory … world. This longing for "the truth" of a world in which one does not suffer is the desire for a world of constancy. … This … quest for another world, … is the result of unproductive thinking. … "the impotence of the will to create" … Metaphysicians … try to discover the true … world that is already there rather than creating a world for themselves. …The way out of the circle created by the ressentiment … is the will to life rather than the will to truth. The will to truth can be overcome only through a Dionysian relationship to existence. This is the way to a new philosophy, which … aims "to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle" “ Their benevolence towards the oppressed is a thinly veiled attempt to exercise power over the subjugated. Nietzsche: “Benefiting and hurting others are ways of exercising one's power upon others—that is all one desires in such cases! … We … show benevolence to those who are already dependent on us in some way … we want to increase their power because in that way we increase ours, or we want to show them how advantageous it is to be in our power—that way they will become more satisfied with their condition and more … willing to fight against the enemies of our power. Whether benefiting or hurting others involves sacrifices for us does not affect the ultimate value of our actions; even if we offer our lives … this is a sacrifice that is offered for our desire for power … What is decisive is how one is accustomed to spice one's life; … An easy prey is something contemptible for proud natures. They feel good only at the sight of unbroken men who might become their enemies and at the sight of all possessions that are hard to come by. Against one who is suffering they are often hard because he is not worthy of their … pride,—but they are doubly obliging toward their peers whom it would be honorable to fight if the occasion should ever arise. Spurred by the good feeling of this perspective, the members of the knightly caste became accustomed to treating each other with exquisite courtesy.— Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests: for them easy prey—and that is what all who suffer are—is enchanting. …” Suffering is inevitable-the drive to abolish it holds life in contempt. The tension of the should in misfortune is what cultivates human greatness. Nietzsche: “modes of thinking which measure the worth of things according to PLEASURE and PAIN, … are … naivetes, which everyone conscious of CREATIVE powers … will look down upon with scorn, … Sympathy for you!--to be sure, that is not sympathy as you understand it: it is not sympathy for social "distress," for "society" with its sick and misfortuned, for the hereditarily vicious and defective who lie on the ground around us; … OUR sympathy is a loftier and further-sighted sympathy:--we see how MAN dwarfs himself, how YOU dwarf him! and there are moments when we view YOUR sympathy with an indescribable anguish, when we resist it,--… regard your seriousness as more dangerous than any kind of levity. You want … TO DO AWAY WITH SUFFERING; and … WE would rather have it increased and made worse than it has ever been! Well-being, as you understand it--is certainly not a goal; it seems to us an END; a condition which at once renders man ludicrous and contemptible--and makes his destruction DESIRABLE! The discipline of … GREAT suffering--… it is only THIS discipline that has produced all the elevations of humanity hitherto? The tension of soul in misfortune which communicates to it its energy, its shuddering in view of rack and ruin, its inventiveness and bravery in undergoing, enduring, … misfortune, and whatever … greatness has been bestowed upon the soul--has it not been bestowed through … great suffering? In man CREATURE and CREATOR are united: in man there is not only … clay, mire, folly, chaos; but there is also the … the sculptor, the hardness of the hammer, … do ye understand this contrast? And that YOUR sympathy for the "creature in man" applies to that which has to be fashioned, bruised, forged, stretched, roasted, annealed, refined--to that which must necessarily SUFFER, and IS MEANT to suffer? And our sympathy--do ye not understand what our REVERSE sympathy applies to, when it resists your sympathy as the worst of all pampering … there are higher problems than the problems of pleasure and pain and sympathy; and all systems of philosophy which deal only with these are naivetes.” The ultimate result of this negative orientation toward life is the inability to live life to its fullest. Instead, the affirmative holds life in contempt for its pains, never understanding that life is suffering, starvation, and dying. The desire to seek redemption from life through the creation of a future moral order annihilates life in the present. This is the worst possible danger: our existence becomes a dreary perpetuation of biological life, devoid of meaning, waiting only for passive death. Nietzsche: “the world was made to appear, … as an ever new vision projected by that grand sufferer for whom illusion is the only possible mode of redemption. … Yet in its essential traits it already prefigured that spirit of deep distrust and defiance which, later on, was to resist to the bitter end any moral interpretation of existence whatsoever. It is here that one could find … a pessimism situated “beyond good and evil”; … a philosophy which dared place ethics … among the “deceptions.” Morality, … became a mere fabrication for purposes of gulling: at best, an artistic fiction; at worst, an outrageous imposture. … Christianity being the most extravagant set of variations ever produced on the theme of ethics. … a doctrine entirely moral in purport, using absolute standards; … which relegates all art to the realm of falsehood and in so doing condemns it. … the furious, vindictive hatred of life implicit in that system of … values, … From the very first, Christianity spelled life loathing itself, and that loathing was simply disguised, tricked out, with notions of an “other” and “better” life. A hatred of the “world” a curse on the affective urges, a fear of beauty and sensuality, a transcendence rigged up to slander mortal existence, a yearning for extinction, cessation of all effort until the great “Sabbath of Sabbaths”—this whole cluster of distortions, … always struck me as … the most dangerous, most sinister form the will to destruction can take; … as a sign of profound sickness, moroseness, exhaustion, … And since according to … absolute ethics) life will always be in the wrong, it followed … that one must smother it under a load of contempt and constant negation; must view it as an object not only unworthy of our desire but absolutely worthless in itself. As for morality, … could it be anything but a will to deny life, a secret instinct of destruction, … the beginning of the end?—and, for that very reason, the Supreme Danger …” The alternative is to embrace suffering as something positive and necessary to life. Reject the idea that suffering is something to be avoided. Wrisley: “the meaning of our suffering that has been the problem, … The first possibility concerns a religious ethic that, … views suffering as undesirable, but which ultimately uses mendacious and deleterious means to provide a meaning for human suffering. The second possibility concerns the extent to which we can say Nietzsche endorsed the idea of giving meaning to suffering through acknowledging its necessary role in human enhancement and greatness. Since the religious ethic sees suffering as undesirable and thus something ultimately to be avoided … the means it uses to give suffering meaning are ultimately mendacious, … Nietzsche’s positive alternative—one that embraces the necessary role suffering has for the enhancement of human life … our attitude toward suffering that needs to be modified, i.e., we should modify so that we no longer see suffering as something to be avoided. Because of this, the middle position of avoiding suffering when possible and then seeing its positive attributes when it does occur does not recommend itself. …” The K operates in a few ways:1. The K negates the resolution in two places: a) it negates apriori because by allowing people to just opt out of their suffering and off themselves we decrease suffering in the world, which the K explains is bad. And this is apriori because before we can even address human rights we first need to understand what it means to be human. b) it negates by turning the aff case against him -- by advocating for assisted suicide to preserve human worth he violates the very thing he aims to preserve. 2. Violating human rights and worth only matters insofar as violating it results in some kind of harm which means he's in a double-bind -- either a) violating human rights results in some kind of suffering, which means that affirming bites into the K, or b) violating human rights doesn't actually have a bad consequence and there's no impact to the AC.