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-3 Post author: tygorton 20 May 2012 04:40AM

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Comment author: roll 21 May 2012 12:14:51PM *  0 points [-]

Well, the value of life, lacking specifiers, should be able to refer to the total of the value of life (as derived from other goals and intrinsic value if any); my post is rather explicit in that it speaks of the total. Of course you can take 'value life' to mean only the intrinsic value of life, but it is pretty clear that is not what OP meant if we assume that OP is not entirely stupid. He is correct in the sense that the full value of life is affected by rationality. Rational person should only commit suicide in some very few circumstances where it truly results in maximum utility given the other values not accomplished if you are dead (e.g. so that your children can cook and eat your body, or like in "28 days later" killing yourself in the 10 seconds after infection to avoid becoming a hazard, that kind of stuff). It can be said that irrational person can't value the life correctly (due to incorrect propagation).