Camus' "the only serious philosophical question is that of suicide" is something like the P≠NP proposition of philosophy == "Choosing life is better than choosing death".
Most people assume it is true and move along to other questions. Few work on the proposition itself.
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It's just a very literal version of survivorship bias.
Dead people don't tweet about their philosophy.
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Hmm except that all of traditional religious philosophy is concerned with survival rather than self-actualization (which is a relatively modern concern of organized religion, post ~1800s). That's why I excluded it. They usually land on some sort of duty-driven imperative to live
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The biggest problem with this whole discussion is that it glosses over how little the executive functions have control over the suicide choice.
That decision is made at a much deeper level and the conscious is merely along for the ride.
It's not a philosophical decision.
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Didn't mean to suggest it was. The philosophy problem is to provide a satisfying account of suicidal ideation and decision-making, not to support it.
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