american P s y c h O
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Message #292676 posted by american P s y c h O (Info) May 04, 2008 02:00:16 ET
In Reply to: if you could kill everyone in the world..(you too) posted by bum (Info) May 04, 2008 00:10:18 ET
I just went to a presentation on the ethics of suicide, which was centered around the three Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love.
I wish I wrote down some of the book names that the guy cited, they seemed interesting.
I'm not going to remember them, but I thought of these..
Have you ever read Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus? It's fairly short.
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Sorrow Acre by Isak Dinesen (very short)?
“He saw the ways of life . . . as a twined and tangled design, complicated and mazy; it was not given him or any mortal to command or control it. Life and death, happiness and woe, the past and the present, were interlaced within the pattern." If you read it, expect to see a similarity to the fall of man in the Bible (at far as the sequence of events goes, sort of).
Are you familiar with utilitarianism?
We could consider that view, because utilitarians would certainly have a lot to say about this.
You could look up the ethical considerations for dealing with population and future generations. There would be many pertinent arguments there.
If you want, I can look more into specific authors or articles for you to read if you want. Hell I could even loan you some books and packets. I just finished up my last exam/papers on Friday, so I'm officially done with college work :D That means I have a few days to only do what I want, until the actual graduation date.
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