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    One is forbidden to act on the maxim of committing suicid... — Carmelics
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    One is forbidden to act on the maxim of committing suicide to avoid future unhappiness.

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    • 1.If a maxim fails the contradiction in conception test (third step), one has a perfect duty to refrain from acting on it.
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    • 2.The maxim of committing suicide to avoid future unhappiness fails the contradiction in conception test.
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    • 1.The maxim 'end life to prevent greater suffering' can be universalized without logical contradiction, as Hume argues in 'Of Suicide'.
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    • 2.If suicide under extreme suffering is universalizable, it fails no contradiction-in-conception test and generates no perfect duty against it.
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    • 3.Kant's prohibition therefore rests on a flawed application of the categorical imperative, not on the formula itself.
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    • 1.Kant's argument treats self-love as necessarily life-preserving, but self-love can rationally motivate ending a life of certain misery.
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    • 2.If the same faculty (self-love) can coherently ground both preservation and cessation, no performative contradiction exists in the maxim.
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    If your maxim fails the third step, you have a “perfect” duty admitting “of no exception in favor of inclination” to refrain from acting on that maxim (G 4:421). If your maxim fails the fourth step, you have an “imperfect” duty requiring you to pursue a policy that can admit of such exceptions. If your maxim passes all four steps, only then is acting on it morally permissible. Following Hill (1971), we can understand the difference in duties as formal: Perfect duties come in the form “One must n
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