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If our knees bent in the opposite direction...what would a chair look like?
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This is easy. They would look the same with a small trench running down the middle of the seat. That trench exists so that men's balls do not get squashed. As chairs exist now, if we had no hamstrings or buttcheeks to separate our scrotum from the surface of our sitting area then we would have pancake testes. In order to insure the survival of the species, this Teste Trench would have to be made so that our sperm have nice little orbs in which to swim around. Also, you would be straddling the chair and not sitting with your legs out to the front of you now.
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This isn't a personal question, just a common subject that's debated. Do you think suicide is selfish, or are people selfish for viewing it as selfish?
If I want to do myself in, should I be able to? It won't matter what everyone else will feel because I'll be dead.
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Suicide is acceptable in some extreme situations, and an ignorant way out in most others. If you are lobotomized, maimed, disfigured, paralyzed or otherwise living a life not-worth living due to the sheer difficulty of physically being alive... maybe suicide is the answer. However, killing yourself for reasons like; "The people at Taco Bell don't put enough cheese on my Mexican pizza", or "the love of my life is more interested in the Paleontology professor at Uni" seems a bit selfish to me. You are willing to traumatize the people in your life who have the rest of their lives to live still... yet you think that your "pain" is so great that nothing else matters. That IS why people kill themselves... nothing else matters to them, they stopped caring, they gave up... I don't care what silly-ass justification they give... the real answer is that they are quitters. If you have noone who loves you or is a part of your life and you feel like you need to commit suicide... sod off. At least try to make it neat so someone else doesn't have to clean up your cowardly blood. Suicide is by-and-large pathetic, and I hope that none of my loved ones commit suicide because I will take them off the loved ones list immediately. If your actual opinion is "it won't matter how other people will feel" - then please, do us all a favor and get the **** out of here, you probably aren't contributing much to anyone else anyway.
Also, being 100% sure that there is no after-life is just as foolish as you consider the very religious to be, in a sense. You have faith in the fact that if something like that existed it would have been proven by now... by the very fallible creature that we call "Man". The earth was once flat, you know...