{"id":42,"date":"2005-03-07T22:44:39","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T22:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phlogma.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-02-25T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T22:17:11","slug":"suicide-as-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/general\/suicide-as-prevention-42","title":{"rendered":"Suicide as prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To live a comfortable, even luxurious life it is not necessary to kill anyone; but it is necessary to allow some to die whom we might have saved&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Peter Singer, <a href=\"biblog\/?p=49\"><em>Practical Ethics<\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only morality&#8217;s demands could be so modest. Rather, to live <em>at all<\/em> &#8230; and then moreover in the realization of a <em>biological imperative<\/em> to kill!<\/p>\n<p>Thus Weininger executed himself to get morally ahead of the curve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To live a comfortable, even luxurious life it is not necessary to kill anyone; but it is necessary to allow some to die whom we might have saved&#8230; [Peter Singer, Practical Ethics] If only morality&#8217;s demands could be so modest. Rather, to live at all &#8230; and then moreover in the realization of a biological &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/general\/suicide-as-prevention-42\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suicide as prevention&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-utilitarianism","category-weininger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aporia.net\/phlogma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}