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    Supports→The debt-of-gratitude variation of the gift analogy also fails to prohibit suicide, because disposing of one's life is not inconsistent with expressing gratitude for having lived.

    An obligation of gratitude cannot coherently demand that one endure conditions under which the gift has ceased to confer benefit, since gratitude tracks the value received, not mere possession.

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    Coherently(as describing how these functions work together)
    In a way that is logically consistent and doesn't contradict itself.
    confer benefit(as used in ethics)
    To provide or give someone an advantage, help, or something valuable.
    gratitude(example of a particular emotion that can become religious)
    A response to a particular kind of situation in which the subject is the recipient of some benefit.
    mere possession(as used in ethics)
    Simply owning or having something, without considering whether it's actually useful or valuable to you anymore.
    obligation(Within obligational disputation)
    The respondent's commitment to a specific stance on the case put forward by the opponent, which governs how the respondent must respond to subsequent propositions throughout the disputation.

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