Ethical Choice in a Religiously Diverse Community

This paper explores the notion that within exceptionally heterogeneous and homogenous religious communities the ethical choices of participants belonging to these religious communities will differ owing to dissimilar social forces, including but not limited to economic, political, and cultural forces.   More specifically, this paper examines the marginal change in committed suicide rates in each state of the U.S., compared with the marginal change in religious heterogeneity in the same state.