Here we go again ... instead of facing the real issues, (however painful they might be), let us deflect, make ourselves feel better by blaming those that suffer the most. How dare they are allowed to get together and share their pain after we (the society) have all but marginalised them!
Not long ago I wrote about my own experience publicly, fully aware that what I said, (extract below), goes against the mainstream, acceptable narrative. Predictably I am receiving flack for it. Also predictably - I don't give a rat's. After all, over 200 years have gone by since Voltaire declared that 'I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.'
Extract:
'A few months later, I came across several initiatives started by grieving parents to ban the forum(s) from existing. I understood their anger. It is a natural reaction. An instinctive reaction deployed to mask the brutal truth hidden beneath it. The real question is not why a suicide forum(s) is allowed to freely exist on the internet, even if one is opposed to such a forum(s) as a matter of principle. Instead, the real question is why their children frequent such a forum(s). Nobody is born suicidal. But everyone is born to someone. To some parents. Placed in their care. What have they done or allowed to have happened to those children to make them join suicide forum(s)? Those are the real questions. The questions people cannot bring themselves to hear. The questions I could not stop asking myself. The suicide forum(s) gave me a window into the dailiness of suicidal. Together with the vocabulary to match. I found myself wishing that at least one of us had come across it earlier. Much earlier ... '