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8640938 No.8640938 [Reply] [Original]

Has anyone ever killed themselves over the metaphysical?

>> No.8640939

I hope so.

>> No.8640942

They may think they have.

>> No.8640954

>>8640938
me. think about it

>> No.8640955

>>8640938

Only after teleologically suspending the categorical imperative.

>> No.8641010

>>8640938
wow dude that's fucken DEEEP!!!!!!!

>> No.8641014

>>8640938
Wow, I read the Myth of Sisyphus too. Probably ought to kill an Arab.

>> No.8641129

me in a couple of days, lol

>> No.8641132

I'm waiting until Samhain, then I'm going to set myself on fire.

>> No.8641160

Almost certainly, though I can't cite any suicide notes off the top of my head. I do know that there was a (non-fatal) shooting in Russia resulting from an argument over Kant, so metaphysics had definitely caused bloodshed in the past.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-man-shot-in-quarrel-over-immanuel-kant-s-philosophy-8820327.html

>> No.8641406

Mitchell Heisman I think, though I personally haven't read him.

>> No.8641422
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>>8640938

>> No.8641925

>>8640938

Me in 20 years