Philosophy Now Forum

Paul Edwards disagrees with Kant in this recently-discovered paper.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/61/Kant_On_Suicide

What might Kant have done had he found himself living in a town in which almost the entire population joined some doomsday cult, attempted suicide and - it being a particularly incompetent cult - failed? Would he have regarded them as things, as beasts, proceeding to treat them as such? Finding himself so outnumbered would make this rather difficult. He might have found himself having to reconcile himself to his fellow citizens and as such amending his opinion. Or would he have just moved to another town?