12-15-2013, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by jseal
Its interesting to compare how different the current social attitude towards suicide is with how it was viewed in Antiquity, when suicide was viewed as not necessarily shameful.
Yet another example how malleable human culture is.
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It's all in the circumstances, jseal. The Dutch young people with grenades in their pockets who walked into bars filled with German troops are OK, Islamic suicide bombers are not. The churches have never agreed with it, but have praised those who give their lives to save others.
Greater love hath no man, but that he give up his life for another.
Crystal clear. 
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