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Originally Posted by abaya
And also... what kind of insensitive fuck jokes about suicide, or EGGS someone on, in any context (yes, even a complete stranger on the internet)? I mean, I can see it if you've known someone for a long time and they've been waffling about it for years, etc... but a total stranger? I don't really care about legal repercussions, but even in this "insult" context, I can't believe that not a single person in that room had the consciousness of mind to think that this person might be serious.
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The internet is full of attention whores, the kind of folks who do anything to get people to look at them. . In their eyes, egging this man on to hang himself would be no different than having some chick flash her breasts in front of the webcam. It's the wonderful world of the internet.
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Sometimes I hate the fucking internet and what it encourages people to do. (I am not talking about the guy who committed suicide; I am talking about the fuckers who watched him do it, and how they could possibly think that was something "cool"...)
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If you think he was egged on simply because he was on the internet, you're mistaken. In any situation where a person publicizes their attempt at suicide, there will be spectators in the crowd egging them on to jump/blow their brains out/etc., just as there will be people trying to persuade them to stop. Blaming the internet is pointless, as that would assume that if he didn't have a webcam he wouldn't have done it, which I don't believe at all.