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I’m going to say something that might sound crazy. Suicide and suicide attempts are sort of a societal alarm bell that says “something is very wrong with the environment this individual was in.” A living being choosing to take themselves out of existence is the most extreme act of distress there is. The state stepping in to silence this alarm bell by funneling suicidal people into a state sanctioned euthanasia program, normalizing this act through a socially accepted bureaucratic system, is not a good thing. It goes hand in hand with the state’s interest in maintaining the status quo at the expense of the population and the psychiatric industry’s interest in individualizing societal problems to extract profit and aid the existing system. It’s saying “there are no complaints here, just people with sick brains, carry on.”

it does not sound crazy

FYI “feminism” was coined by a TERF so i would use “non-man upliftmentism”

I love how we are supposed to think that men have a monopoly on logic and rationality when one of their favorite problem-solving strategies is “kill my entire family and then myself”

and women are peak empaths yet somehow they cannot foresee/prevent their husbands committing suicide out of unhappiness

it must suck to be so much more statistically violent that the best you can do for a female wrongdoing equivalent to “total family annihilation through cold blooded murder” is “fails to stop husband from killing himself”

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

As a principled feminist I'm often tempted to say shit like "are men capable of higher thought" but then I have to remember not to perpetuate gender essentialism and change it to "why do men choose not to think about anything"

you can't criticize anything here without some dumbass saying "look it might be weird but its not wrong. gay people are weird, do you hate them too?" and its like, their default argument.

to add on to my longpost as an added side effect in our attempt to normalize mental illness i feel too many people have developed a sense of learned helplessness. you are in control of your life and you can make the choices to be better. Btw. with the exception of extreme circumstances out of your control the only thing holding you back is you. your mental diagnoses (neurological/neurodevelopmental exempt) are not permanent. i dropped out of high school due to an extreme anxiety disorder and it ruined my life for years and i just like, don’t have anxiety anymore. you are not trapped!!! be active make the change!!

i used to be so mentally ill i couldn’t leave my house without having a panic attack so i KNOW what it’s like to be in such an awful place and have people tell me shit like this, it feels annoying and unhelpful because it all feels so heavy and uncontrollable. but i literally promise if you take it step by step you can get out of it. it’s a long but rewarding process to be able to live