Quote Originally Posted by rachel06 View Post

So here's the thing - I don't need to make a case-by-case analysis of the sanity of someone who's willing to consent to snuff. I just don't. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say that anyone who "consents" to snuff is simply incapable of giving meaningful consent.
The trouble is, this is exactly the argument we run up against in debates on suicide: any competent adult should be free to decide what they want to do with their life, but if they want to die, that proves they are incompetent to make decisions.

And as Thir pointed out, we've seen the same argument applied by people who are scared of BDSM: anyone who consents to being tied up and whipped is obviously not competent to give consent.

But I can see the difference. The fundamental problem about death, and the reason many people are against capital punishment, is that it doesn't allow of corrections or second thoughts. If you go into a heavy scene and realise it wasn't what you wanted, even if what goes wrong is that you're under a Top who won't respect your safeword, at worst the mistake can be fixed with some hospital time and trauma therapy. If you consent to be killed for the wrong reason nothing can put it right.