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    Challenges→If people can attempt suicide in Hell, they will all successfuly commit suicide in Hell

    If the damned soul persists as an incorporeal or indestructible substance, the causal mechanism by which suicide produces death is absent, making successful self-annihilation metaphysically impossible regardless of intent.

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    Metaphysically impossible(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that cannot exist or happen in the deepest reality, no matter what—not just practically impossible but impossible by the very nature of how reality works.
    causal mechanism(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of causation)
    The process or chain of cause-and-effect by which one thing makes another thing happen.
    damned soul(as used in theology and philosophy of religion)
    In religious traditions, a soul that has been condemned to suffer eternally, usually in hell, as punishment for sin.
    incorporeal(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that has no physical body or material form—it exists as pure spirit or consciousness rather than as matter you can touch.
    indestructible substance

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    (as used in metaphysics)
    Something that cannot be broken down, destroyed, or cease to exist, no matter what happens to it.
    self-annihilation(Benjamin's account of authentic critical judgement, contrasted with Romantic criticism)
    The essential negative moment of completion that authentic judgement must involve; the critical act through which a work or judgement negates and completes itself.

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