e.4.Fear of loss of control.5.Fear of becoming a burden to my family financial, psychic, or social.In assessing these reasons for action, we look back to the Kantian Categorical imperative, and put them into maxim form. Lets take a look at one of the more personal issues like number 2. If I my fear of living too long without fatal illness to carry me off, then I reserve the right to commit suicide. To begin with this reason is selfish because your reason for death is personal desire possibly because you will be the only person left of your circle of friends. An action is morally praiseworthy only if done neither for self-interested reasons nor as the result of a natural disposition, but rather from duty. Which is why these reasons are immoral. John Locke states that rights are given to men by nature, but they are needed because men are also subject to natures improvidence. Since life in sin danger, mens equal rights would be to life, to the liberty that protects life, and to the pursuit of happiness with which life, or tenuous life, is occupied. In practice, the pursuit of happiness will be the pursuit of property, for even though property, is less valuable that life or liberty, it serves as guard for them. Quite apart from the pleasures of being rich, having a secure property shows that one has liberty secure from invasion either by the government or by others, and secure liberty is the best sign of secure life. Which not only demonstrates the philosophical embodiment of the doctrine of natural rights but also the first instances of American Idealism, which is that the individual is more important than the whole. My right to secure my life against death that is, my rightful liberty to self-preservative conduct is the bedrock of all other rights and of all politically relevant morality. Every right ever argued, claimed, granted, or denied can be viewed as an extensions of this primary right to life, since every particular r...
