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    Challenges→Social arguments against suicide show at most that suicide is sometimes wrong, not that it is always wrong

    If the very disposition to weigh one's life as not worth living is itself a symptom of pathological social disintegration, the individual's cost-benefit judgment is systematically unreliable.

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    Disposition(as used in metaphysics)
    A tendency or potential for something to behave in a certain way under specific conditions—like how sugar has the disposition to dissolve when placed in water.
    Pathological(as used in medicine and psychology)
    Related to disease or disorder; in this case, delusions that are genuinely caused by a mental illness rather than just being weird beliefs someone chose to adopt.
    Systematically unreliable(the weaker claim the Cretan might actually be trying to communicate)
    Consistently or regularly untrustworthy—describing a pattern where someone or something regularly fails to be accurate or truthful.
    cost-benefit judgment(as used in ethics and decision theory)
    A decision made by weighing the negatives (costs) against the positives (benefits) of something to decide if it's worth doing.

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    social disintegration(as used in sociology and social philosophy)
    The breakdown of the bonds and structures that hold a society together, like when communities stop functioning properly and people become disconnected from each other.

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