A Rational Choice: Suicide Tales From the New Asylum: Pascal’s Wager
Author: James L. Knoll, IV, M.D..
Source: Volume 12, Number 06, March/April 2011 , pp.81-81(1)
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Abstract:
A lifer contemplating suicide muses Pascal’s “Wager” - does “reason” conclude that even though the existence of God cannot be determined, one should nevertheless “wager” as though God exists, because one has everything to gain, and nothing to lose.Keywords:
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