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You make good points, I should have specified the form of nihilism I was using which is existential nihilism which asserts that existence is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value. I'm not using either the epistemological, ontological or metaphysical forms... Morality is the illusion from an existential nihilist point of view, that's why one can indeed justify mass murder through nihilism, but they can only justify it to themselves or maybe other existential nihilists but they could not justify it to anyone else...
It's quite true that existential nihilism based suicides must be very rare, was there ever even a single one? I'm ready to accept it actually never happened... But theoretically, if one accept the premise of existential nihilism (existence is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.) then it is possible to have a rational reasoning leading to suicide. I think that what makes it so improbable to see nihilism based suicides is the biological imperative to survive, rationality is usually not enough to overcome that imperative, that's why the vast majority of those who did commit suicide acted on irrational reasoning... When death is imminent and/or pain unbearable, it becomes easier to rationally overcome that biological imperative I think...
I'm not advocating installation of suicide booths on street corners mind you, my question is a theoretical one... How can we justify restricting assisted suicide to terminally-ill individuals? I think a true existential nihilist could convince me that his suicide would be logically reasoned, now how many true existential nihilist are there, probably very, very few...
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