Free will and animal suicide
Animal Sentience January 1, 2022 Sabina Schrynemakers 1 citation
David Peña-Guzmán argues against the claim that only humans can commit suicide because only humans have free will, offering two reasons: nonhuman animals may possess free will, and the libertarian concept of free will conflicts with scientific explanation. While the objection to restricting suicide to humans is correct, his critique of libertarian free will is misdirected; the real issues are the assumptions that free choices require conscious self-reflection or that freedom cannot vary in degree.