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Well, I think there is a difference between growing weary of a familiar person's overtures about suicide over years and egging on a stranger in a chatroom who is threatening it. I had an aunt who threatened suicide for thirty years, made several half-hearted attempts at it (meaning she did it within situations that it was probable she would be caught and stopped before it was too late, which did turn out to be the case). And believe me, there was no shortage of eye-rolling and head-shaking among the members of my family when the conversation turned to her. Her life was also plagued by drugs, alcoholism and abusive relationships with men. She finally did it successfully a little over two years ago.
So again, I'll say that I don't believe that these folks in the chatroom should be held legally culpable for what happened, but I am under the opinion that someone ought to dropkick their asses 'til next Tuesday for being total fucking asshats. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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