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and voluntary decision,
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with good reason behind it--
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in a situation like that it seems to me
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the consent principle might well come into play,
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in which case consent
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will trump or nullify the force of the deontological prohibition
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against harming innocent people.
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So, suicide will again be acceptable in some cases,
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though not in all.
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And that's the conclusion that seems to me to be the right one,
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whether we accept the utilitarian position
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or one of these deontological positions.