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Re:Spain: Parliament passes law legalizing assisted suicide by nimbleal on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:19PM (#26509341)
Quite so. The idea of a society based fundamentally on positive freedom is intrinsically oxymoronic
Re:Spain: Parliament passes law legalizing assisted suicide by JetAlone on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:34PM (#26509412)
In a way. Where freedom is made fundamental instead of deriving from an even higher fundamental principle it creates a power vacuum, and encourages those who fundamentally value something else to destroy it. Kind of like how we went from almost unilaterally valuing the sanctity of life a generation or two ago (as per the parent comment's aunt and uncle, rest in peace), to here and now, publically discussing the moralilty of destroying yourself.