PSYCH218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Suicide Watch, The Symbolic, Public Good
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The functions of law: social disorders (disruptive, chaotic, unpredictable). The needs of the living outweigh the wishes of the dead. Example: disinheritance laws - if someone is a dependent and they are connected to you and you die, you cannot cut them out of their will. Public good refers to the public good of the living. When you are dead, your good can no longer be prioritized in the: overt prevention of external chaos. Various types of physical harm and just because they pissed you off you cannot disinherit someone. )t doesn"t matter what you want if it disadvantages the living the focus is on the interconnected. An ethic of divinity (preserving symbolic order . )f something doesn"t make sense, it is probably symbolic. When go on suicide watch so they can"t do it themselves: covert prevention of internal chaos. When people over react (over an eye for an eye standard) they are suppose and not suppose to do).