“We are all culpable,” Matt Nelson said before lighting himself on fire. This is the third such incident in a year.

  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, this is a pretty westernized and infantilizing view. Way to take someone’s autonomy and compare it to -checks notes- slavery and involuntary human sacrifice.

    Please read some eastern philosophy and history before making comments like this. Suicide isn’t stigmatized outside of Abrahamic viewpoints.

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      4 months ago

      I genuinely don’t care if someone’s holy book or ancient traditions say killing yourself is fine.

      I very much do care about the family and friends that are left behind to process the deaths of loved ones. As well as the lives that are cut short because someone decided the world would be a better place with them dead.

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        3 months ago

        I… get the feeling you’re not trying to have a conversation about the particular incident in the OP article. Which is fine, and good, but don’t overproject.