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Originally Posted by HarryT
Switzerland has the highest suicide rate in Europe, AND the highest proportion of suicides using guns as the weapon. Do you not class suicide as murder?
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Even if you did classify it as murder, it's a separate type of murder. Even the term self-murder, distinguishes it from other murders.
Even if you do classify it as murder, there's no reason that all of the previous arguments don't/can't apply to homicide.
Furthermore, if Switzerland legally considered suicide murder (no idea if they do, although I would have assumed not), then the fact that they don't have a higher murder rate would mean that their total homicides + suicides rate would be less than other nations, and still a desirable effect. (Unless you consider suicides more harmful to society than homicides.)