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'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland

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Re: 'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland

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Finally, can't wait to the time they will legalize suicide centers with these pods where everyone, without any reason at all other than wanting it, can easily, quickly, reliably and euphorically end this non-sense called life.

Sure, buddy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

Re: 'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland

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Finally, can't wait to the time they will legalize suicide centers with these pods where everyone, without any reason at all other than wanting it, can easily, quickly, reliably and euphorically end this non-sense called life.

Sure, buddy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

You linked to a page explaining the logical fallacy, did you even read the wiki article?

Regardless, if this somehow led to a significant percentage of the population committing suicide, wouldn't that mean we're not doing something right in society?

Re: 'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland

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Finally, can't wait to the time they will legalize suicide centers with these pods where everyone, without any reason at all other than wanting it, can easily, quickly, reliably and euphorically end this non-sense called life.

Sure, buddy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

More realistically chronically ill, mentally ill, and disabled people will be increasingly pressured into this "alternative" by the medical and welfare systems, as is already happening in canada. Exactly as predicted years ago by disabled people, exactly as dismissed then as a slippery slope. It's not a fallacy when there's prior art!
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