In today's discussion both Dr. Abernathy and Dr. Biskner raised the question "How can people not know their unalienable, self-evident rights?" Does this seem possible or likely? We continued to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen where article 4 caught my attention. It states, "Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else..." What about ourselves? Does this document approve self injury? Is suicide legal since it seemingly only injures only the person committing the act? The truth is there is no injury that affects only one person. Others are either directly or indirectly injured as well. Those who believe otherwise are ignorant.
People who act in a self destructive manner are ignorant of their unalienable rights. They are given the rights to LIFE, LIBERTY (whether that be literal or figuratively in such cases as freedom from an addiction), and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. They are not promised happiness but the right to pursue it. Many result to suicide because of a lack of happiness or a feeling of entrapment, but a way out of these things are given to everyone; it's left to everyone to find it for himself or herself.
I commented on Willy's blog.
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