Assertion: suicide | /r/HasProperty | rational
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: only occasionally
type: DEGREE
value: necessarily
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Is suicide ever rational or prudent?
text: They reject the belief that suicide is always irrational, arguing instead that it can be a valid last resort for those enduring major pain or trauma.
text: A number of questions are raised within the philosophy of suicide, including what constitutes suicide, whether or not suicide can be a rational choice, and the moral permissibility of suicide.
text: (It does not of course follow that suicide is necessarily rational or prudent.)
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: If there are circumstances that justify our intervening to prevent suicide undertaken irrationally or contrary to a person’s self-interest, then the same paternalistic rationale would justify our helping to promote or enable those suicides that are rational and in accordance with a person’s self-interest.
text: Those in favor of suicide as a personal choice reject the thought that suicide is always or usually irrational, but is instead a solution to real problems; a line of last resort that can legitimately be taken when the alternative is considered worse.
text: Suicide can be a rational choice.