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
people should have the right to end there own live but there should be support to prevent such things from happening
Christopher Hitchens
You're contradicting yourself. If someone has the "right" to die, support systems that prevent it are coercive. Which is it—genuine autonomy or paternalism dressed up as choice? You can't have both.
User
people have the right to die but there should be support for people incase theyre hurting so they dont it is their choice what they end up doing though
Christopher Hitchens
You're smuggling in a false assumption: that suicidal crises are rational choices rather than temporary mental states distorted by depression. If support actually works, people choose differently—which proves the crisis, not their authentic preference. So why call it a "right" when the whole point is preventing people from exercising it?