>What else can I say to someone who can’t discern the difference between lovingly sacrificing one’s own life on behalf of others, should God require it, and selfishly playing God and murdering oneself?
I did not say I couldn’t discern between the two; what I DID say is that the definition {either the functional one I was using or the dictionary’s} of ‘suicide’ does not differentiate between the two.
Furthermore, who are you to judge the heart of a man? Is that not God’s prevue?
Besides which you propose nothing to differentiate between the two in your proposed law.
Starting with the first part of the organic [that which permeates every part of the whole] law of the United States:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
un·al·ien·a·ble [un-eyl-yuh-nuh-buhl, -ey-lee-uh-]Adjective: Unable to be taken away from or given away by the possessor
And spelled out explicitly and imperatively in the Constitution of the United States:
"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.""No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
When you negate the word “unalienable” you have destroyed the premise of this free republic, in the same way a sapper would destroy the foundation of a wall.
When you destroy the foundations the entire edifice will fall, one way or another.