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To: Albion Wilde

>>Is overweight person who has a heart attack from obesity a suicide, and denied heaven? How about the smoker or drinker who dies from the chronic effects — a suicide, only slowly? What about the chronic worrier, even if he or she is sincerely concerned about his or her grown children, who strokes out from anxiety? What about the person who skipped some work-related duty to leave on time, and is hit by a car and killed on the way home? Did they commit suicide because they consciously shirked their duty, and then were in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Reductio ad absurdum like this is really silly. To compare this to the deliberate act of putting a gun in your mouth, taking an overdose of pills, or hanging yourself displays either a profound ignorance or a feeble attempt to justify suicide.


48 posted on 04/09/2013 2:22:04 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Bryanw92

Know when you’re beaten by logic, son.


82 posted on 04/09/2013 3:37:22 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Commies out of D.C.!" --Raoul Deming, 1955-2013)
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To: Bryanw92

Do you think those people who weigh 600 pounds and are eating themselves into coronaries aren’t suicidal?


85 posted on 04/09/2013 5:02:17 PM PDT by informavoracious (The ancient Greeks and Romans thought they were on the "right side of history.")
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