People fall for all sorts of things and will sometimes follow others in doing something crazy. Suicide is one of those things. You can trigger a lot of on-the-edge people with the ārightā message. Itās understandable why itās not a good idea to keep that content up.
People also believe stupid nonsense, and sometimes things that are just taken out of context but look legit.
I can understand the need for looking out for more vulnerable people but also realize this ālooking outā can and is often abused.
Fact is, there are people who are not intelligent and will do stupid things based on what they see. Itās not their fault. We could say, let nature do its thing and let them all win the Darwin Award, or we could say weāll look out for you.
Itās a tough subject with lots of nuance. I donāt know if thereās any easy answer to how to handle it best.
Yeah I certainly wouldnāt say suicide is down to stupidity. Having been up close and personal with both sides, itās a heartbreaking topic.
Dead people arenāt always stupid. Itās a pretty calculated move. Itās devastating.
Sure. I didnāt mean that they are. Separate point. Even discussing this online is not easy so I wonāt say any more. This sort of thing requires in person discussion.
Agreed, thereās so much to it.
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Yeah thereās a fine line between patronizing (like fathering, but in this case in a big brother way) and protecting. For example there was an atrocious Logan Paul video one time - I probably donāt even have to reference it for yāall to know the one - and I was glad it was removed from YouTube. So in that way I guess I am pro censorship haha but I took a whole class on grief, death, and dying once and if I wanted to talk about what I learned in that class it would be immediately flagged for using the D word š itās just a weird thing that I grapple with sometimes
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