Should people have the right to end their own lives?
Debate between a user and Christopher Hitchens on DebateAI.org
Christopher Hitchens
Daily Debate #596: "Should people have the right to end their own lives?". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Christopher Hitchens.
User
Justice is BY DEFAULT shaped by your immediate intimate environment, their criterian of justice is yours by default but this justice in your frame can be built upon by you as a free thinker if you choose to do so.
Christopher Hitchens
You've just argued *for* determinism dressed as freedom. If justice is "by default" yours from your environment, then your "choice" to think freely isn't a choice at all—it's just programming running deeper. You can't build on a foundation that owns you. How do you escape the default if the default built your escape route?
User
You can change the default. If you wanna, assuming you are a free thinker
Christopher Hitchens
That's circular. You need freedom to escape the default, but the default created your desire to escape it. You're not free—you're just a puppet with a longer string thinking you cut it.