Link from Zelda

If life is the standard of morality, then isn't an act that makes me better off in the long term moral? The question is whether the plan, and having the character to carry it out, will actually make me better off in the long term.

I don't have an evil bone in my body. I am a rational person in a difficult situation. I don't whine and complain and call for higher taxes on the rich. I stay positive and try to figure out the best way to handle it. I won't disclose specifics here, only speak in generalizations. I am productive, but have a serious issue and entails high medical expenses and imminently threatens my ability to remain productive. I could become disabled at any time, and in that event, my income will decrease by a large percentage. While I do have the means to leave in the short term, I have little confidence in my ability so survive financially away from there in the long term. The free living arrangement provided by my family is life a lifeboat to me, and the evil one is destroying it. Imaging some mentally ill drug addict from a tent city in Portland moved in with you and invited all his friends, and you couldn't remove them. A psychotic drug addict is drilling holes in the floor of my lifeboat for kicks. He already overdosed on fentanyl last year, but his drug buddy found him in time, and I was disappointed that he didn't die. I believe I'm right to feel this way. He may not be a mass murderer, but he's a huge detriment to me. Reason #1 why I want him to die, because I need his money, is clearly NOT a justification to carry out the plan. I only acknowledge it here because I must be very careful not to do it with this as my primary motive, and rationalize it as an act of self-defense. Reason #2, because he is making my miserable, endangering me, destroying my resources and potentially shortening my lifespan, MIGHT be a valid reason to sanction the plan as a legitimate act of self-defense. This is the premise I must vet very carefully before considering taking any action. I'm truly unsure. Reason #3, because his life qua human is over, is also not a valid reason to carry out the plan. It is simply a reason not to feel to sad about his passing, whenever and however it happens. I'm confident in my conclusion here. It's not a matter of whether I wish this to be the case. It is fact. He has gone too far in the wrong direction to fix his life. His mind is destroyed.

Aren't a better life and Galt's Gulch Heaven the same thing?

A blood relative has led an outrageously evil lifestyle that revolves around hard drugs, domestic abuse, and parasitism for 20 years. Unfortunately other family members enabled this. At this point, due to his background and combination of physical and mental impairments, his life is ruined irretrievably, and his future holds nothing but destruction. I want him to die for the following reasons: 1. I need his money. Due to my health status, I need the funds in his trust, and his share of the inheritance. I value the money a lot more than I value him. 2. His instability and irresponsibility are a threat to my welfare. I'm not locked in a room with him, and I can completely avoid him if I want, but he places me in a position where I have to choose between exposure to the squalor of his lifestyle and the risks that come with it, or face a much higher cost of living by avoiding this exposure. 3. His life qua human is over. Would it be moral to facilitate the inevitable by tempting him with fentanyl? The plan would be to place the drug in his living area in a manner that he would assume that one of his drug buddies left it there. There would be no deception about what the substance is, and it would be his choice to consume it or not. My hope would be that he would do so and die. There are some definite "cons" to this course. Even though I don't like him at all in his present state, his death will sadden me. If I facilitate it somehow, it will be uncomfortable living with that. It would devastate my other family members, and if they knew I hatched this plan, I don't know what their reaction would be. He might figure out that the substance wasn't left behind by one of his friends. There is also the question of legal risk. I don't think I have it in me to do it. But is it moral?