banning the most toxic pesticides, and having better controls for pesticides like centralized storage
I applaud your goal of preventing painful suicide attempts, but I think your approach is wrong-headed. If you ban pesticides, there will still be other bad methods available, e.g. CO poisoning.
My suggestion would be to make pentobarbital available to everybody who wants to die, perhaps with a short waiting period so they are forced to think it through. But of course, that’s not politically feasible.
Your approach of banning and restricting doesn’t actually add value to anybody’s life. It doesn’t make their lives better. It doesn’t fix the reasons they want to die in the first place. It doesn’t even pay their rent or put food on the table. It doesn’t even remove painful suicide attempts from the demographic.
I would go so far to say that doing nothing is actually better than this naive paternalism. But that may be too harsh. Even so, it certainly doesn’t beat GiveDirectly. At least they add actual value to people’s lives (other than the paid lobbyists, that is).
I applaud your goal of preventing painful suicide attempts, but I think your approach is wrong-headed. If you ban pesticides, there will still be other bad methods available, e.g. CO poisoning.
My suggestion would be to make pentobarbital available to everybody who wants to die, perhaps with a short waiting period so they are forced to think it through. But of course, that’s not politically feasible.
Your approach of banning and restricting doesn’t actually add value to anybody’s life. It doesn’t make their lives better. It doesn’t fix the reasons they want to die in the first place. It doesn’t even pay their rent or put food on the table. It doesn’t even remove painful suicide attempts from the demographic.
I would go so far to say that doing nothing is actually better than this naive paternalism. But that may be too harsh. Even so, it certainly doesn’t beat GiveDirectly. At least they add actual value to people’s lives (other than the paid lobbyists, that is).
(No personal offense intended in this post)