I mainly want some sort of over-arching idea you follow when discussing these things. For example:
Topic: "What is your philosophy when discussing the afterlife and suicide?"
Answer: "We do not know what happens after death, so we should accept that there are several interpretations of the afterlife. Someone who says 'You will go to hell for CTB' assumes that there is a heaven/hell after death, but that's incompatible with someone who says 'You will disappear forever after death, so it follows that you will lose consciousness and any capacity to suffer.'"
However, if you'd like to say anything else that is still relevant, that is also very welcome.
I don't think there is any consensus or over-arching philosphies that most of the forum adheres to, other than maybe the freedom of someone to choose for themselves, without influence. People will get upset if you try to encourage or discourage the suicide of other people, and encouraging it is both not allowed here and illegal in some places.
For my personal opinion, I think there are many ways a society can send its least desirable into the depths of despair. Imagine a group of people beat you down until you can't move, and then shovel you into a hole while standing at the top, virtue signaling to each other about how kind and compassionate they are. They all helped in different ways to shovel you in, but they act as if nothing like that ever happened, or shift the entirety of the blame onto you.
In reality, the blame rests on everyone. On them who helped put you here and on you for choosing to stay in the hole or dig it deeper, maybe to get away from them or maybe because you just weren't as competent as they are.
Either way, you're in the hole now, and when they act the way they do at the top; offering a token amount of support as a display of how magnanimous they are, it might be a little confusing to you. They have one hand outsretched to you and the other holding onto the shovel they just used on you. If this has already happened a few times before, you might be scared to grab on, since at least the hole can give you a place to belong, and won't throw you away.
Many people at the top of the hole aren't bad people, but they don't understand.
It's like Kelli (not sure if I spelled that right) from Fix the 26 accusing the site admin of taking the $700 of donations meant to keep the site running and using it for gender reassignment procedures (the mildly disturbing, completely baseless, and really abhorent accusation aside her actions make it clear she only wants to save certain types of individuals on this site). It's also like Joe Biden giving yet another empty promise of a social safety net for struggling families only to bomb children in Gaza instead, or maybe democrats in general arrogantly making a show of asinine terminology, identity politics and political correctness while turning around and supporting the modern day colonization of the west bank by extremists who want to remove the palestinians and turn it into an extension of Israel. So much for cultural tolerance and diversity.
Its like an employer who says they value every "member of our family" but then works you until you break and they have no use for you. Like people who have children they can't afford. Like people who have empathy, but whose empathy comes with conditions against the mentally deranged gays or the transgenders or the faggots. People who care, but only if you aren't broken. People who will acknowledge you, but only if you don't look "suspicious" or "dangerous". People who self righteously think they hold the moral high ground and claim that they will always know what is and isn't true, and what is and isn't morally just.
These aren't bad people, but to me they are very dangerous, because they are the least trustworthy and most malicious kinds of people you will ever meet.
