If you were required to be an organ donor, you’d save lives while setting yourself free. You’ll also give someone else a chance at taking the spot you had at work and your apartment.
If you were required to be an organ donor, you’d save lives while setting yourself free. You’ll also give someone else a chance at taking the spot you had at work and your apartment.
No. You’d create perverse incentives where people would be shunned by society for refusing to kill themselves.
Instead, we eliminate work-as-a-necessity by meeting everyone’s “needs” and transform society to work-as-a-luxury: Employment isn’t for meeting our essential survival needs, but for our social wants.
As for the “apartment”: We have sufficient quantity of vacant housing that every homeless person in the country could be housed today, and even if there weren’t, it would be easy to build. What’s lacking is the motivation to do it.
If the majority of society wants you gone, your death would benefit them. Unfortunately not everyone is capable of being loved.
But I agree with the rest.
Do you understand the difference between “Democracy” and “Populism”?
Democracy is the idea that political authority is conveyed through the consent of the people.
Populism is the idea that political authority is conveyed by the will of the majority.
When 90 people want to kill off 10, Democracy says that those 10 people are part of the source of political power. Their deaths are out of bounds for the rest of the populace to even consider.
Populism says that the 90 are free to call for the destruction of the 10.
Societal endorsement of voluntary euthanasia promotes a perverse, populistic viewpoint, as opposed to our democratic ideology.
Populism is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. Democracy is whatever keeps the sheep off that particular ballot.
I have no problem with medically-assisted suicide to prevent pain and suffering in cases of terminal illness. I have no moral or ethical problems with suicide in general (although society’s position should be to intervene and prevent suicide where we reasonably can.) My issue is in giving society the authority to ask its members to kill themselves.