Home › Forums › Decaffeinated Coffee › Why force feed? › Reply To: Why force feed?
SDD – I have just thought of something so twisted that if you don’t insult me badly enough, I will have to insult myself. So I’ll leave it up to you.
According to what I have written above, somebody who is trying to commit suicide is ???? ?????? ?????. You may kill him in order to stop the murder.
The Rishonim say (Rivash, Levush) that although a bystander may not kill a Roidef in a case which is ???? ????? ???? ??????, the ???? himself is permitted to (The Levush actually extends this to the family of the Nirdaf as well).
This being true – and here comes the really krum part – if somebody is trying to commit suicide, he has a status of a Roidef. Ergo, he would be permitted to kill himself.
Suggested Psak: Suicide is permitted.
You would get a ???? ????? – if you are allowed to kill yourself, then you have no status as a ???? and therefore are not allowed to kill, in which case you become a ????…..