It's really frustrating how unquestionably self harm vs violence towards others are presented as two equal sides of the same issue when I would argue that those are actually two different issues of wildly different proportions which don't actually benefit from always being presented as two equally significant sides of the same coin, as many mentally ill people self harm while only a small minority ever engages in violence towards other people. Acting like allowing people autonomy in relation to their own bodies and lives is the same thing as allowing anyone to abuse and assault indiscriminately completely misunderstands the core issue of bodily autonomy.

"danger to themselves and others" those are two very distinct things and should not be put on equal footing or even the same sentence.

i kind of straight up despise the way a lot of people on the internet attribute "friendlessness" to "being a chud nobody wants to hang out with". no i can assure you there are an infinite multitude of reasons why somebody might not immediately have a large close knit friend group they're always free to hang out with, and believe it or not, not all of them are moral failings

it's hard to talk about this without sounding like a hit dog hollering or discrediting the people i am lucky enough to have in my own life, so to be clear yes i do have friends but also i've been there and could stand to be less there. it is hurtful to see posts that imply that the only possible reason why somebody might be lonely in today's society, online or in person, is that they're a hateful mean asshole who is antisocial in nature and actually must be completely deserving of their own loneliness. no, some people are autistic, or mentally ill, or shy, or overly busy, or struggle to initiate conversations, or grew up in circumstances that made it harder to fall into these kinds of connections and relationships naturally, or any other number of factors. i don't know why people are so cruel and unsympathetic about the prospect.