US ambassador killed over a film

[kandrathe]

I believe people have the right to end their own life if they want to, and that stopping this is not necessarily a good thing.

Well, there is a big difference between a terminally ill person in great agony and an irrational jilted lover. One tenet of our morality is that we value human life, even when the "owner" does not.

This is part and parcel to the morality and ethics imparted by the social coda --

• don't kill
• don't steal
• don't have sex outside of marriage
• don't eat pork
• etcetera

Perhaps this is where we differ. I don't have a problem with the established social contract (based upon religion) which "steers us toward good decisions" even if they are perceived to placebo.

It can work to set aside one list of social rules that are quasi-secular, ie. natural law, torts and contracts. I don't think it works to allow everyone their own rule book. I understand why you'd chaff against the establish social coda, which is layered upon primarily a religious rulebook. As you said, it's working pretty well, but it's not perfect.