Assertion: suicide | /r/HasProperty | wrong
Facets:
value: morally
type: DEGREE
value: absolutely
type: DEGREE
value: clearly
type: DEGREE
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: to the community
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to the state
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: somehow
type: MANNER
value: to god
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: always
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: He concludes that suicide is somehow a wrong to the state or the community, though he does not outline the nature of this wrong or the specific vices that suicidal individuals exhibit.
text: Certainly, we can make a judgment that suicide is the wrong way to deal with one’s problems, but we should leave eternal judgment up to God.
text: and so suicide is a wrong to God akin to theft or destruction of property.
text: Opponents of commit argue that it implies that suicide is criminal, sinful, or morally wrong.
text: Suicide is neither wrong nor right; it is not a defect of character; it is morally neutral.
text: Act shocked, lecture on the value of life, or argue that suicide is wrong.
text: First, in Phaedo, Socrates expresses guarded enthusiasm for the thesis, associated with the Pythagoreans, that suicide is always wrong because it represents our releasing ourselves (i.e., our souls) from a “guard-post” (i.e., our bodies) the gods have placed us in as a form of punishment (Phaedo 61b-62c).
text: The advent of institutional Christianity was perhaps the most important event in the philosophical history of suicide, for Christian doctrine has by and large held that suicide is morally wrong, despite the absence of clear Scriptural guidance regarding suicide.
text: Hence, suicide is wrong because it violates our moral duty to honor the inherent value of human life, regardless of the value of that life to others or to the person whose life it is.
text: Still, some of these reactions may be due to the strong stigma and shame associated with suicide, in which case these reactions cannot, without logical circularity, be invoked in arguments that suicide is wrong because it produces these psychological reactions (Pabst Battin 1996, 68–69).
text: Again, this line of argument appears to show at most only that suicide is sometimes wrong, namely, when the benefit (in terms of future harm not suffered) the individual gains by dying is less than the benefits she would deny to society by dying.
text: Don’t debate whether suicide is right or wrong
text: But, it seems obvious that suicide is clearly wrong, though forgivable.
text: After all, a believer certainly knows that suicide is wrong.
text: The story that suicide is wrong and immoral is, like other things, to be taken with reservation.
text: Schopenhauer affirmed: "They tell us that suicide is the greatest act of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
text: Although George Lyman Kittredge states that "the Stoics held that suicide is cowardly and wrong," the most famous stoics—Seneca the Younger, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius—maintain that death by one's own hand is always an option and frequently more honorable than a life of protracted misery.
text: Suicide was wrong, but was acceptable in instances of imminent capture and torture, apostasy, and shame or dishonor.
text: He stated that suicide was absolutely wrong because self-destruction was contrary to a person's natural inclinations; because a person has no right to deprive society of his presence; and because people are God's property so it is up to God, not people, to decide on life and death.