demuic
Life was a mistake
- Sep 12, 2020
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This is the narrative that the anti-SS brigade has chosen to run with, and it's easy to see why. The "think of the children!" argument has been used countless times throughout history to restrict the rights of grown adults while at the same time also doing nothing to actually protect children whatsoever.
This is a deliberate tactic on their part, I believe it was someone on Stop SS who said as much. They are aware there is no flood of minors accessing this site and then killing themselves, but this false picture they've painted is one that riles up in an emotional response in the minds of the Karens and brainless normies that like to attack anything that doesn't fit their worldview.
Don't fall for their tactics.
Many of the people who have died and have been members of this site have been legal adults, not even "just" 18 or 19 but 25+, yet the media and the angry grieving family members would still like to paint these individuals as being children, for some reason. I wonder why? You are old enough to go off to war, but taking your own life is too much.
I myself am 20, 19 when I joined SS, an adult both in the legal sense and in the eyes of society. Yet to anti-SSers, I am also somehow a child that has no idea what I'm doing. At the same time, society at large will berate and ruthlessly mock an adult who still lives with their parents or is a NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
That's why I find this time period of being a "young adult" to be so magical. You are still "young enough" to be condescended to by jackasses who think they know everything about what you've gone through, while also being "just old enough" to be considered a failure in life or a worthless layabout with no prospects for the future, if you have not checked off all the boxes for success in society's eyes.
But to the main point. At the end of the day, it is a parent's responsibility to parent their children. Not random strangers. Not the internet. These parents are the ones who presumably live with their children, yet instead of questioning themselves as to why their children felt they couldn't talk to them as to how they were feeling if it really was something that could've "easily" been avoided, they instead place the blame on a website. Some people don't like it when this is said, but I have no doubt that some of these parents played some kind of role as to why these people felt the need to take their lives. Overbearing, narcissistic, abusive, and abrasive, are just some of the words I would use to describe the impressions I get from some of this site's lovely detractors. I would surely not feel comfortable discussing what drives me to want to take my life with such people who seem incapable of even basic empathy.
Parental controls are one thing that has been brought up in response to this, and if a parent feels that it is too much or inappropriate to install some kind of site blocking software on their teen-aged child's devices, then that parent is also acknowledging in a roundabout way, that their child is an individual with a brain of their own, not a naive toddling baby who is impressed with a sense of "monkey see, monkey do" without any kind of independent thought process.
With or without SS, people, even "kids" will commit suicide. This is a fact. It doesn't take a much effort to be aware of the age old methods of hanging and jumping, for example, things which I'm sure most human being over the age of 5 are aware of. And unless you'd like to ban every piece of media, news, or other kind of information that even makes references to these methods of causing your own death, there is no escaping from the fact that someone will find the means of killing themselves if they wish to.
This site explicitly bans minors and will swiftly ban anyone who admits to being one. There is nothing more for SS to do on this matter.
The way I see it, the only viable means of suicide "prevention" is to do anything to try and make the world one that someone would like to continue to live in.
This is a deliberate tactic on their part, I believe it was someone on Stop SS who said as much. They are aware there is no flood of minors accessing this site and then killing themselves, but this false picture they've painted is one that riles up in an emotional response in the minds of the Karens and brainless normies that like to attack anything that doesn't fit their worldview.
Don't fall for their tactics.
Many of the people who have died and have been members of this site have been legal adults, not even "just" 18 or 19 but 25+, yet the media and the angry grieving family members would still like to paint these individuals as being children, for some reason. I wonder why? You are old enough to go off to war, but taking your own life is too much.
I myself am 20, 19 when I joined SS, an adult both in the legal sense and in the eyes of society. Yet to anti-SSers, I am also somehow a child that has no idea what I'm doing. At the same time, society at large will berate and ruthlessly mock an adult who still lives with their parents or is a NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
That's why I find this time period of being a "young adult" to be so magical. You are still "young enough" to be condescended to by jackasses who think they know everything about what you've gone through, while also being "just old enough" to be considered a failure in life or a worthless layabout with no prospects for the future, if you have not checked off all the boxes for success in society's eyes.
But to the main point. At the end of the day, it is a parent's responsibility to parent their children. Not random strangers. Not the internet. These parents are the ones who presumably live with their children, yet instead of questioning themselves as to why their children felt they couldn't talk to them as to how they were feeling if it really was something that could've "easily" been avoided, they instead place the blame on a website. Some people don't like it when this is said, but I have no doubt that some of these parents played some kind of role as to why these people felt the need to take their lives. Overbearing, narcissistic, abusive, and abrasive, are just some of the words I would use to describe the impressions I get from some of this site's lovely detractors. I would surely not feel comfortable discussing what drives me to want to take my life with such people who seem incapable of even basic empathy.
Parental controls are one thing that has been brought up in response to this, and if a parent feels that it is too much or inappropriate to install some kind of site blocking software on their teen-aged child's devices, then that parent is also acknowledging in a roundabout way, that their child is an individual with a brain of their own, not a naive toddling baby who is impressed with a sense of "monkey see, monkey do" without any kind of independent thought process.
With or without SS, people, even "kids" will commit suicide. This is a fact. It doesn't take a much effort to be aware of the age old methods of hanging and jumping, for example, things which I'm sure most human being over the age of 5 are aware of. And unless you'd like to ban every piece of media, news, or other kind of information that even makes references to these methods of causing your own death, there is no escaping from the fact that someone will find the means of killing themselves if they wish to.
This site explicitly bans minors and will swiftly ban anyone who admits to being one. There is nothing more for SS to do on this matter.
The way I see it, the only viable means of suicide "prevention" is to do anything to try and make the world one that someone would like to continue to live in.
