if you think of future versions of yourself as separate agents, then suicide is a form of homicide.
It seems like that argument also implies that failing to bring into existence as many people as possible is comprable to homicide, since doing so would be depriving potential people of their lives. So, if you don’t believe it’s a moral responsibility to create more people, you shouldn’t accept the argument that suicide is a crime against your future self either.
This is true if your future self is a separate entity that doesn’t exist yet, but not true if your future self is a continuation of your current self and is thus the same entity; an entity that already exists.
It seems like that argument also implies that failing to bring into existence as many people as possible is comprable to homicide, since doing so would be depriving potential people of their lives. So, if you don’t believe it’s a moral responsibility to create more people, you shouldn’t accept the argument that suicide is a crime against your future self either.
This is true if your future self is a separate entity that doesn’t exist yet, but not true if your future self is a continuation of your current self and is thus the same entity; an entity that already exists.
Hmmm. Why the downvote?