this question seems to be asking if you would make use of a pain-free (to yourself and others) way of committing suicide. i think for most ppl the impulse to stay alive is more than just avoiding pain - it is avoiding death/void/oblivion/nothingness. it is certainly that for me.
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 8:34 AM
i sometimes wonder whether it would be in society's best interest to create a way for people to commit suicide in a responsible (to their families + loved ones + themselves) way. presumably people are going to do it anyway, so maybe if we had some kind of "ethically" sanctioned dystopian way to do it (like those drinks in children of men, or the suicide booths in a mind forever voyaging), it might ease some of the pain. this might be a copout tho, since treatment has got to be the better model, right? (kant would certainly never condone suicide, even under the best most responsible conditions)
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 8:41 AM
I asked this question. This question is not about suicide. It is about not-existing.
Please can people not use this as a suicide thread, that was not the intention and I'd really rather the discussion did not turn that way.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, October 12, 2012 8:46 AM
I don't think anyone in this thread has any right to draw conclusions about the mental state of anyone except themselves. Thanks.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, October 12, 2012 8:55 AM
I disagree with the op regarding what this thread is about. Luckily death of the author etc.
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 8:57 AM
srsly speaking tho any question that asks about self-annihilation necessitates a discussion of suicide imho
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 8:59 AM
even if it is super special suicide
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:00 AM
sn't it great that there are people on this thread who can mansplain to me what the thread I started is about! Because I would ~never~ have known what was in my head otherwise.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:01 AM
who cares what you think the thread is about is really the point. i would happily "mansplain" 20th century literary theory to you, but i'll let wiki handle that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_the_Author
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:05 AM
f you could push a button and authorial intent would simply cease to exist, would you press it?
^^^ yes
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:05 AM
xp I don't see why the thread creator should have any special privilege to police the discussion
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:22 AM
and some dude otm. even if it would be ethically okay for me to wipe out my own existence, i don't think i can make that decision for the life that is dependent on my own existence to exist.
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:23 AM
If a thread-starter asks a question which is "do you prefer red or blue?" you don't get to walk into a thread and declare that actually red is yellow for the purposes of this question and claim "ooh, death of the author."
Especially if that means drawing dubious psychological conclusions about what it means for anyone on the thread who chose "yellow" (when they actually chose red.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:30 AM
what if the thread-starter asks: 'if you could eliminate yellow or blue, which would you eliminate?' and someone declares that eliminating any one of those colors would also eliminate idk green (if i remember my primary and secondary colors correctly?) and then the thread starter said: "NO. ONLY ELIMINATING THOSE COLORS DON'T TELL ME HOW TO FEEL"
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:35 AM
maybe it's like that dr who thing where the crack in the wall eats you and then everyone forgets you ever existed.
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:37 AM
Mordy, you're a total arsehole and I wish you would cease to exist. Or at least keep your unpleasantness off threads that I start. Can you please just go away and just not do this, for once?
If you can't do that, I'm going to ask for the thread to be locked, because I'm really, really sick of this.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:39 AM
Get over yourself.
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:40 AM
I'm becoming completely serious, before you start with your "oh noes, women be being emotional" garbage again. Please just stop this.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:40 AM
WCC, any issue I have with you has nothing to do your gender.
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:41 AM (6 days ago)
fwiw, I don't really have an issue with you except that you love to escalate ILX arguments. I don't even have a problem with that tho! Go with god.
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:42 AM
also lol @ *my* women are being emotional garbage. i've never said that. but when did you stop beating your inappropriate work crush?
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:43 AM
i don't think i said anything warranting a flag post itt, but do what you've gotta do xxp
― Mordy, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:44 AM
Matt, please can you lock the thread. I'm deeply tired of this.
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:45 AM