The Porcupine: Battle for Southern Chamber

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Well, that was short. Can I take over for Bannon? I'm not from the South, but his ideas are generally mine.

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Well, that was short. Can I take over for Bannon? I'm not from the South, but his ideas are generally mine.

Sure why not? I have room for one more question.

-I accept.

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What's the final question? Bannon's Brigade has capably answered the first 2.

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This is one of the few issues I disagree with Bannon's Brigade on. I view one's life as a matter of self-ownership, and I recognize men's freeedom to die as they desire. However, Bannon's Brigade strongly supports the Euthanasia ban. Since I'm subbing for him, I cannot afford here to espouse my position at the expense of his own, so I shall try here to explain it in a way men can understand.

Bannon's Brigade is a friend of the right to preserve one's life. He is not a friend of the right to take it. Bannon's Brigade understands one's right to life is one, inalienable, and finite. He does not desire men to make poor decisions with it. And the worst decision one can make with one's life is to end it prematurely. For how does a man know what wonders he might experience, or what purpose he may be called for, even if he lays in bed in pain?

The legalization of euthanasia also presents severe ethical dillemas. Becoming an acessory to the taking of a man's life is not that far from being a murderer oneself. Indeed, given the below, there might not be a distinction between thse, even in the presence of supposedly obvious marks of consent. And how can one discern unambiguous consent in a man's desire to take one's life? Expressing the desire for taking one's life is not like expressing the desire for relationships -for men, in general, desire relationships. They do not generally desire death. It is, thus, extremely difficult to tell whether a man genuinely desires to take one's life, or merely suffers from a curable mental illness, after the cure of which the will to suicide vanishes. Such uncertainty is precisely why we should not trust men who express desire to take their life. What if they change their mind? Well, if one is dead, one cannot express that will, and one's life thus perishes forever in the grave without the chance to continue the expression of man's most fundamental right.

Just as a man in this region cannot sell oneself into perpetrual slavery without means of escape, so can a man in this region not ask another to take their own life. Such behavior is not the expression of one's liberties; it is those liberties' negation. And such behavior cannot be justified in the free region of the South.

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CLOSING STATEMENTS:

Thank you, OneJ, for moderating, and thank you, TimeCuber, for participating. As a foremost champion for the state's role in its preservation of men's life, liberty, and property on this forum, I am pleased to be part of this fine and civil debate. Vote for Bannon's Brigade in the southern elections and for me, E. Harding in the northern.