Depressing/ Suicide

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Originally Posted by traceur

I am surprised: Wasn't it you that preached at one point that entitlement is in the eye of the beholden? ...

Apples and oranges.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."


There's a distinction between matters of life or death and matters of happiness in that the former is an outcome while the latter is a pursuit. Social propriety changes with the gravity of the situation. You have the right to kill yourself and others have the right to pursue changing your mind if that would make them happy. You have the right not to kill yourself to keep them happy; but, no right to entitlement for it, only to the pursuit of entitlement (if that's what makes you happy) which would be at the others' discretion.

I can see how that might surprise someone honing talking the talk without walking the walk. I'm sure it could be surprising for other reasons too.