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    The maxim 'end life to prevent greater suffering' can be ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→One is forbidden to act on the maxim of committing suicide to avoid future unhappiness.

    The maxim 'end life to prevent greater suffering' can be universalized without logical contradiction, as Hume argues in 'Of Suicide'.

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    • 1.If a maxim can be universalized without logical contradiction, it passes Kantian/Humean rational consistency tests.
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    • 2.Universal permission to end life when suffering exceeds bearable limits contains no internal logical inconsistency.
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    • 3.Hume's critique of theological objections to suicide removes the primary barrier to treating it as rationally permissible.
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    • 1.Universalizability is a necessary but insufficient condition for moral permissibility; logical consistency ≠ ethical rightness.
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    • 2.A maxim permitting suicide under suffering could destabilize social trust and mutual aid systems if truly universalized in practice.
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    • 3.Hume's skepticism about metaphysical arguments doesn't establish that suicide-to-prevent-suffering can be consistently universalized.
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