The rationality of suicide is irrelevant to welfare critiques

Evidence

O’Neill displays a strangely judgmental attitude towards suicide, arguing suicide “is not a rational response to economic hardship; it is not a rational response to having your benefits cut”. This is a spectacular case of missing the point: for many of those suffering from mental illnesses, the capacity to act rationally is impaired, which is one reason that they need to be protected. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1600

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Right-wing commentators denied welfare suicides could be evidence against reform — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1597; Suicide cannot escape absurdity because it too awaits a future meaning it denies itself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1257; Appeals to pity are fallacies only when they are irrelevant to the decision type — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1038 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Appeals to pity are fallacies only when they are irrelevant to the decision type #expands (0.85) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1038
• Suicide cannot escape absurdity because it too awaits a future meaning it denies itself #responds-to (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1257
• Rationality in social theory attaches to systems and functions, not individual decisions #corroborates (0.80) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 308
• Some suicides stem from a horror of mortality itself rather than physical pain #qualifies (0.75) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 736
• Institutional human rights strength does not measure human welfare #corroborates (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 444
• Rationality and order produce inhumanity, not merely contain it #complicates (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 435