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  • Is suicide by denying/turning away from the absurd realistic?
    I could be way off, but isn't most suicide more emotional than logical? Isn't one argument against a regularly armed populace the fact that people will kill themselves due to easy access when they are in a bad place emotionally? Tomorrow, suicide might not seem like such a great idea.
    That's the essence of the question I have posed, we don't find suicides to be committed solely due to realizing that everything is meaningless. So Camus' argument seems erroneous to me, there is no logical suicide--but his use of applying only logic to death and suicide helps him make the bigger point of existentialists providing false hopes and helps us understand the nature of an absurd life.
  • Is suicide by denying/turning away from the absurd realistic?
    But what I think is that Camus refers to actual, material suicide for most of the first part of the essay and not philosophical suicide:philosophical suicide is just finding false hopes that blinds us of the diversity of our existence. So the question still pertains if someone after realization of the absurd commits suicide solely due to that realization?