• AndreaHill@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Latest: The Taliban have decreed that any woman caught attempting suicide will be put to death.

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      1 year ago

      Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t some JudeoIslamic factions already punish suicide with death?

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        Yes. Though it’s not really as hypocritical as it seems at first glance.

        Assume you view suicide as being punished with eternal torment.

        Someone wants to kill themselves, but, if you kill them instead it isn’t a mortal sin.

        From your moral framework the execution is now a mercy. They no longer suffer, in this life or the next.

        Ya know, if you believe in sky daddies and whatnot.

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        Suicide, really. That’s the last thing you should try. You realize that suicide’s a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they’d have hung you for it.

        – Peter Cook, Bedazzled (1968)