What you call emotion, I call justice, and I think that matters.<p>Consider, without any emotion, the issue of murder versus suicide. What are the negative impacts of those acts? From the point of view of that person&#x27;s friends and family and society at large, leaving aside emotion or notions of justice, the impact of the acts is the same: loss of that person, loss of their financial and emotional support. In fact, the impact on family and friends is often worse in cases of suicide because insurance policies often have an exemption for suicide.<p>Yet, almost nobody thinks murder should be legal while quite a few people think suicide should be legal. If we just mechanically consider &quot;a death is a death&quot; and count up the monetary impact of each case, we have no way to explain or justify why people feel this way.