I think your argument that it’s OK for people to suffer because they might get better some day is awful. What if they don’t get better? What if it gets worse? Why is this anyones business except the affected persons?
The fact that you battled mental shit is just a display of survivorship bias and doesn’t mean shit IMO.
You moved the goalpost by going from “we should ban assisted suicide” to “we should make suicide harder (instead of actually doing something against the root causes)”.
I’m glad that you “went trough the same and turned out fine”, but most people that bring up that argument have not turned out fine.
You’re just moving the goalpost at this point.
I hope you never get severe depression or any physical illness that wants you to commit suicide. Because I doubt that you would last long, considering you clearly never delt with any of that before.
therapists can’t change society.
So we just let people suffer until society changes itself? And even then there will be people where damage is already done.
Assisted suicide is fundamentally the same thing as non-assisted suicide,
I agree that those things are related. But with assisted suicide people get the option to properly say farewell, have a guarantee they won’t suffer and don’t risk mentally scarring first responders or otherwise involved people unnecessarily. They’ll do it anyways, so why not make it less horrible for them?
What’s a valid reason in your opinion for banning assisted suicide?
Assisted suicide and abortions are tied to informed consent and aren’t really something that can be done ‘on a whim’. (Obviously abortions should be easier to get access to than assisted suicide)
Getting murdered nonconsenting (through war or the death penalty) is something completely different.
I don’t know what to tell you. It seems to me like you’re critical about assisted suicide but are pro choice when it comes to abortions.
In my opinion those two things are different sides of the same coin. Regardless of politics.
It is a political issue because people want it to be one. My comment was about the way the arguments sound, not about what political side says what.
I have no clue why you’re trying to push my argument into a political direction.
I feel like a lot of replies here have the same “every live is precious and needs to be protected at all costs”-vibe as you get with a lot of anti-abortion arguments.
That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. It just means that the demo wasn’t public.
Anything that isn’t debian-like. I’m just very used to It and can’t make myself learn anything else.
I think you should check the batteries in your carbon monoxide detectors.
Wayland break games
The Steam Deck uses wayland so I guess that’s not true (anymore?)
Can you think of a real life equivalent expression of a drive-by downvote that wouldn’t be considered rude?
I don’t think downvoting a post without an explanation is rude. It’s the most basic way of saying: “I don’t like this”.
But to answer your question: Literally showing someone a thumbs-down.
Also, why do you think they would care what you think if you’re not going to engage more?
They should feel free to ignore Downvotes then (or disable them in their client)
it’s hardly going to change my view
Of courses it won’t, but I don’t care. If I cared I’d write a comment.
But what If I don’t want to have a conversation? Sometimes I just want to signal to someone that I don’t like what they posted.
But there’s there’s already a way to clarify what your downvote means by just writing an additional comment.
But maybe someone doesn’t want to clarify because they feel like it’s not worth their time. Or maybe they disagree with everything and don’t know where to start. Or maybe the just want to say “I don’t like that” and that’s it.
Couldn’t that be said about upvotes as well?
Also: Nobody owes anyone anything and that also goes for explainations on up- or downvotes.
Wouldn’t nerving downvotes/dislikes make it harder to voice your option freely? It’s the easiest way to signal if you dislike something (And ofc the other way around with upvotes). But if you make it harder to do that, you’ll suddenly have a lot of people that just don’t bother. That will create a false sense of acceptance of whatever has been said and will make it easier to create echo chambers.
lol