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To be precise, in Switzerland pretty much anybody of sound mind can get an apointment at a clinic to receive medicly assisted death for pretty much any reason.
Here an example, 2 US sisters, wealthy medical professionals died together quite young for being "tired of life". https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10659917/Sisters-died-Swiss-suicide-clinic-said-werent-100-collapsed-discs.html
Religion condems the act of ending one's life, for life belongs to god. You do not own your life, god does, it is not your decision to make when and how you die.
What do atheists say about the topic, generally speaking? Do we own our life? Our does society owns it? Do we have any obligations to anything beyond ourselves that make us stick around?
I just saw an /u/AmericasNavy advertisement on Reddit. The image was a chaplain baptizing a sailor to prepare them for combat. The message couldn't be clearer, and it's a scary one. The US military has long been internally evangelical, but this kind of Crusader-like imagery in recruiting seems like a real problem.
I thought this might be interesting to remember in case you get into an argument with a religious person about how homosexuality doesn’t follow the “natural” design.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFxn7hUW/
The study he refers to:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02585-6
Edit: yes i know the majority of things we do and get in our modern world aren’t natural. My intention of posting this was giving my fellow lgbtq+ atheists/non-theists an argument in case they involve in a conversation/debate with a religious (specifically christian) person. This might help a lot in case you’re lgbtq+ and have conservative parents.
Edit 2: For a lot of their arguments, christians often use the word “natural”. Nonetheless this concept can be discussed both etymologically and philosophically. That’s not the point. The discussion works better with the concept “normal”, in the sense of what goes with the moral norm and what doesn’t.
Taking in consideration this, the objective of the argument is not primarily focused on supporting the discussion by the example of mammals homosexual behavior (although this applies too and is very valid), but specifically the fact that sexual orientation is determined by a pool of genes one carries in their genome. Therefore, since it’s not a matter of choice and it’s something you’re born with (according to science), christians can not use the line of logic based on the fact homosexuality is a sin, because for the concept they have for sin, it’s an affair of choice given your freewill, which in this case it does not apply for the reason explained before.
As a result, since homosexuality is not a sin (by the definition they have for it), it’s not amoral or anormal, and there should be no basis for christians to consider homosexuality as something that is not natural, and therefore they shall have no for reason for being homophobic.
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