Assertion: suicide | /r/HasProperty | permissible
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
value: quite
type: DEGREE
value: in circumstances
type: OTHER
value: in japanese society
type: LOCATION
value: in some circumstances
type: TEMPORAL
value: for the wise person
type: OTHER
value: only occasionally
type: DEGREE
value: for libertarians
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: For instance, it might be assumed that if suicide is morally permissible in some circumstances, then neither other individuals nor the state should interfere with suicidal behavior (in those same circumstances).
text: If the value of a person’s continued life is measured by its likely quality, then suicide may be permissible when that quality is low (see section 3.5)
text: For libertarians, suicide is morally permissible because individuals enjoy a right to suicide.
text: Taken together, these considerations indicate that the scope of suicidal conduct that genuinely manifests fully informed and rational self-evaluation may be rare and so only occasionally will suicide be rational or morally permissible.
text: Arguments that suicide may be permissible [ edit ]
text: The Stoics accepted that suicide was permissible for the wise person in circumstances that might prevent them from living a virtuous life.
text: Confucianism holds that failure to follow certain values is worse than death; hence, suicide can be morally permissible, and even praiseworthy, if it is done for the sake of those values.
text: Lifeline’s Saito concurred, saying: “Suicide is quite permissible in Japanese society, something honorable that is even glorified.