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    It is not the case that Suicide is disgraceful and its perpetrators should receive dishonorable burial

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    • 1.Suicide is ordinarily an act of cowardice or laziness
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    • 2.Individuals who die by suicide are too delicate to manage life's vicissitudes
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Aristotle argues in Nicomachean Ethics V.11 that suicide wrongs the polis by depriving it of a citizen who owes duties to the community.
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    • 2.A virtuous person endures suffering courageously rather than abandoning social obligations, making self-destruction a failure of civic virtue.
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    • 3.Dishonorable burial rituals publicly mark the violation of communal bonds, reinforcing Aristotelian duties of citizens to the state.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Stoic cosmopolitanism holds that our rational faculty is a loan from the divine logos, which we are not entitled to unilaterally return.
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    • 2.Plato's Phaedo 62b frames the soul as a soldier at a post set by the gods, deserving censure for deserting without divine permission.
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    • 3.Ritual dishonor in burial serves an Aristotelian pedagogical function, shaping community virtue by marking which deaths exemplify proper rational agency.
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