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> Contradicts with freedom, free will, and bodily autonomy.

Those are socially constructed concepts and society decides their metes and bounds.



Is your issue with Belgium (where this is legal, among other developed countries)? Or legal/government sanctioned euthanasia in general? Follow up question: thoughts on jurisdiction shopping for this when citizens can travel there from a country that doesn’t respect their rights domestically (a tale as old as time)?


Belgians can do what they want, I guess. But we can judge empirically whether their social beliefs are pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive. Belgians are being supplanted by Muslim immigrants who definitely do not think suicide is okay. It’s unsurprising that a culture that doesn’t value life for its own sake is being out-competed by one that does.




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