Is there anything more arrogant than comitting suicide?
>Suicide evokes revulsion with horror, because everything in nature seeks to preserve itself: a damaged tree, a living body, an animal; and in man, then, is freedom, which is the highest degree of life, and constitutes the worth of it, to become now a principium for self-destruction? This is the most horrifying thing imaginable. For anyone who has already got so far as to be master, at any time, over his own life, is also master over the life of anyone else; for him, the door stands open to every crime, and before he can be seized he is ready to spirit himself away out of the world. So suicide evokes horror, in that a man thereby puts himself below the beasts. We regard a suicide as a carcase, whereas we feel pity for one who meets his end through fate. Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, trans. Peter Heath, Cambridge University Press, 1997, Part II, p. 146
Take the Mainlander pill and fuck outta here with your normie sensibilities.
Jackson Carter
I love how the always-already wrong Chesterton tacitly acknowledges the escape of suicide here, without bothering to layer his religion on top of it.
There is always this disconnect between the religionist, and the brute fact of life. They /sense/ death when they are confronted with it.
Blake Rodriguez
>NOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T KILL YOURSELF YOU NEED RO PERPETUATE YOUR SUFFERING AND DIE A LONG AND PAINFUL DEATH BECAUSE OF MY NAIVE AND CHILDISH IDEAS ABOUT THE SANCTITY OF LIFE
I would just use that as an opportunity to ask for some money or connections to literary agents. Anyways, OP, since you are so much against suicide, could you give me a referral to a literary agent? Thanks.
