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Old 11-14-2005, 02:51 PM   #23 (permalink)
soccerchamp76
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Originally Posted by analog
For the following sentence, "________ don't kill people, people kill people", substitute any of the following: guns, knives, recipes for explosives, recipes for suicide aids, etc., etc.

People always want a reason. When someone dies, there must be a reason for it. Since the parents obviously aren't blaming themselves for it, and don't know enough about her life where she lives, they need to lay blame to get closure on the death of their daughter.

Here's the quick test for the bullshit factor on this: If she shot herself, could the parents go after the gun manufacturer, for making a tool of suicide available to her? If she drive her car off a cliff, could they attack the car's manufacturer? How about if she set herself on fire, can they sue Exxon Mobile for putting a can of gasoline in her hands?

Nonsense and grieving, pure and simple.

And like MrSelfDestruct said, information does not make a person do something. I know of 10 ways to kill a person using one hand. I have not killed anyone, not likely will I ever. When I took karate, I did not randomly flip out and attack people just because I knew how to, despite my thirst for knowledge on the subject. And in all my years of being a pyromaniac, I have never once burned anything that didn't belong to me, committing arson, though I had a vast knowledge available to me and loved fire with a passion.

This is a blame game. The BBS in question is a red herring at best for the real issue: why.

Well, the reason that you could not blame the gun maufacturer, Exxon Mobile, or the car manufacturer, is because these companies make products that CAN be used for illigal purposes, but their intention is not.
The gun, for example, a rifle, is used for hunting. A car for driving....so on.

Please tell me what other uses this website had??? The gun companies don't say "use this gun to kill yourself, it is painless, quick, and 99% effective." What do you think would happen if they advertised THAT? That is what the suicide page is doing. The defense rests.
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