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Re:Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland by yawpitch on Saturday October 11, 2025 @07:58AM (#45548460)
Ever since I learned of Jainism I’ve wished I’d learned of it earlier.
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Re:Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland by NaomiLehman on Saturday October 11, 2025 @09:41AM (#45549080)
Thank you I just learned about it. Seems compatible with atheism.
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Re:Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland by hackernewds on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:24AM (#45549874)
It absolutely does not. Jainism is even stricter than Hinduism, to be co-opted with a faithless belief system
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Re:Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland by anilgulecha on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:31PM (#45551003)
It's atheistic in that it's godless (more focused on saints). In its orthodoxy it requires a lot from any practitioner, towards its philosophy.
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Re:Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland by yawpitch on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:37PM (#45552483)
Atheism isn’t a faithless belief system, it is the absence of either a faith or a belief system.

That absence is also quite compatible with Jainism, the core moral precept of which is simply do no violence.

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