Encouraging Suicide

[SteyrAUG]

So here's something I found on gaia. Apparently some people think that if you encourage suicide and the person you encourage goes through with it that you should be considered an accessory to the crime. What do you think?






Personally I think not. In many instances encouraging suicide is like this:

Emo Kid: Imma go kill myself!
Encourager: DO IT FAGGOT

In a case like this the encourager <i>might</i> have been the last bit that pushed the emo kid over the edge, but likely the emo kid would have done it anyway. He might have been able to stop it, but might not have.

I think that finding what drove people to suicide would be a more important detail to find out. If someone is threatening suicide and they mean it then they probably had a reason behind wanting to kill themself before talking to the person who encourages them.

So this all seems pretty obvious to me, but I still ask in case I am overlooking an important element. As always try to keep things somewhat intelligent.

[jyuukai]

I don't think so because I encourage suicide all of the time. Does it make me a bad person? Maybe, do I care? Nope probably because I am one of the emo people

[quietchat]

In my opinion, if you encouraged it, you should be blamed.

If you noticed on Gaia Online, there are rules that say you can't encourage suicide. The person may or may not kill himself, but you shouldn't ad to it by telling the person to go ahead with it. You can't tell what the person was thinking if he finally does commit suicide, but it's easy to point a finger at anyone that egged him into it.

Pretty much, blame the prick, stick him/her in prison or juvie for however long, and don't argue the bullshit free speech (That doesn't work here either) if you want him/her to be released.

[kitty-kat]

I agree with quiet...if you encourage it your might as well have done it to them yourself...

[AyumiBee]

Yes, if someone would tell it me that he/she wants to commit suicide I wouldn't think even for one sec to tell him/her : Go ahead.

You can always talk with him/her what can show him/her that there are ppl out in the world who care about you even if they don't know you. Maybe they just seek attention.
On my philosophy my classmate searched about this topic and she found a webpage for ppl who want to commit suicide or have tried it and they share their ideas how can they be succesful. It's very morbid and sad in my opinion. Though I heard that some ppl met at that page and got married and they live happily. Imagine their kids-, Mom where did you met dad? On a webpage for people who want to commit suicide. Oh my god! Besides there are peolpe who just visit the site to try to help them with little percent of succesfulness.

[animex09]

I disagree. You only put the idea of suicide in their head as a solution to whatever. Its their decision to go through with it or not.

[AyumiBee]

Originally Posted by animex09

I disagree. You only put the idea of suicide in their head as a solution to whatever. Its their decision to go through with it or not.

Those who have the thought of commiting suicide are highly emotionaly weak, depressed, instabil. So you should help them and not carlessly say things like this to them.

[animex09]

If your encouraging suicide is something I would not do but those who do it, do it. One has to love their own life enough to realize what a stupid idea it would be to kill themselves.

[Russkie]

[Lince]

If someone just said "do it" as a [stupid] joke, and didn't understand they were being a dweeb, then not really. But if someone was really pushing the guy to kill himself, then hell yes. (I vote yes)

//Gaia sucks. :D