Hacking Suicide

2023-04-14 19:06

You want to commit suicide, but it's a mortal sin: your soul goes straight to hell, forever.

That will get you executed, but if you confess your sins to a priest beforehand you avoid hell.

This was actually a problem in the 17th and 18th centuries in Northern Europe, particularly Denmark.

It remained a problem until capital punishment was abolished for murder.

I didn't learn about it in time to put it in my book, A Hacker's Mind, but I have several other good hacks of religious rules.

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