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Category Archives: Suicide
The Halachic Anthropology of Self-Harm: Sanctity, Stewardship, and the Limits of Bodily Autonomy in the Bar-Ilan Monograph on חבלה עצמית
The Bar-Ilan University Institute for Advanced Torah Studies monograph “חבלה עצמית – מקורות והכוונה ללימוד עצמי” by Rabbi Yitzchak Roness and Rabbi Aviead Yechiel Hollander presents itself as a halachic study of the prohibition against self-injury. Beneath its technical handling … Continue reading
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The Assisted Dying Industrial Complex: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Epistemic Authority Over Death
High-status actors among American elites do not compete for authority by openly saying they want to normalize the elimination of costly, burdensome, or insufficiently productive members of society. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as advancing … Continue reading
Why do elites love assisted suicide and push it in their movies/tv?
My mother who had terminal bone cancer was essentially given an assisted suicide in 1969 when she was down to about 50 pounds (the doctor gave hera high morphine dose that killed her). I don’t begrudge this, but I don’t … Continue reading
Rash Of Suicides At Palo Alto High School
Comments to Steve Sailer: * The cruelty of life in the meritocratic upper class. The tragedy of the meritocracy is that the children of smart parents are inevitably likely to be dumber than their parents. If meritocratic upper class culture … Continue reading
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