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Still, if we accept the utilitarian position,
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we do end up with a moderate conclusion.
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In certain circumstances suicide will be morally justified--
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roughly speaking, in those cases where you're better off dead
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and the effects on others aren't so great as to outweigh that.
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Those will be the paradigm cases in which
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suicide makes sense or is legitimate,
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morally speaking, from the utilitarian perspective.
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But of course, that doesn't mean that suicide
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is indeed ever morally legitimate.
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Because we don't necessarily want
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to embrace the utilitarian theory of morality.