Oh look! One of the most prestigious Main Stream Media newspapers has made matters worse by profiting from emotional tales of victims and publicising the web site they may have used.
The Grey Lady’s petticoats are sweeping the floor.
Andrew Dalton
2 years ago
As Gerald Celente likes to refer to the New York Times,”The Toilet Paper of Record.”
Adam Bartlett
2 years ago
SJWs have known Seargent Incel runs the suicide site for at least two years. Surprised it took them so long to launch this sort of attack. Not that one needs to be an SJW to have concerns about such a site. There’s almost certainly going to be several sensitive, sweet and much loved young people who would have survived their suicidal phase if not for the site, and gone on to have meaningful lives. Cant blame parents and others who have lost loved ones to suicide for seeing this sort of site as evil. On the other hand, as even the mostly negative Vice piece concedes, some users have reported things such as receiving “more genuine support and empathy in this forum than anywhere else ever in my life.” So it’s likely saved lives too.
And theres the possibility that thousands face such adverse circumstances that suicide is their only realistic relief from a life of constant pain and bleakness. As a Christian Id like to think God wouldn’t allow that to happen, but realistically, I fear it does. Simone Weil said most people cant even bear to contemplate that such extreme affliction even exists. One can never be 100% sure about other peoples motives, but as far as I can tell, M & the Sergeant have the courage & compassion to assist those who receive at best unhelpful platitudes even from most well meaning people.
This just typical of the modern media. We spend vast amounts of effort concerning ourselves with the symptoms of problems rather than the causes.
It will not happen though because instutions like the NYT, were they to be introspective, may find themselves to be in some way part of problem.
It’s rather like all the “conservative” websites that made AOC a powerful celebrity through their negative reporting. In today’s ungrounded, attention deficit disordered world, it no longer matters if attention is positive or negative. All that matters is attention itself. COVID hysteria is another example. If no one had reported on COVID, most people wouldn’t even have noticed that there was a deadly pandemic in our midst.
” If no one had reported on COVID, most people wouldn’t even have noticed that there was a deadly pandemic in our midst.”
Surely another unproveable, logical fallacy.
Lesley van Reenen
2 years ago
In the absence of state assisted death, I have had friends research the most effective ways to kill themselves – quickest, least pain, least mess, least chance of surviving with a disability. Report back was that finding information was difficult.
I find this very sensible and if the rag that is the NYT is smearing this site then I am sure the site has something to offer.
William Shaw
2 years ago
There’s no greater freedom than being able to decide when and where to end one’s own life.
What right does anyone else have to intervene?
2021 is proven. In a short wile we will prove 2022.
Mikey Mike
2 years ago
No one at the NYT appears to have considered the possibility that making a spectacle of a fringe website on their pages might alert thousands of people who have a fascination with suicide to a website they may never have discovered on their own. It’s almost as if they can’t be trusted with a newspaper.
Last edited 2 years ago by Mikey Mike
Dennis Boylon
2 years ago
If the NYTs hates it there must be some good in it
Dennis Boylon
2 years ago
If the NYTs hates it there must be some good in it
Oh look! One of the most prestigious Main Stream Media newspapers has made matters worse by profiting from emotional tales of victims and publicising the web site they may have used.
The Grey Lady’s petticoats are sweeping the floor.
As Gerald Celente likes to refer to the New York Times,”The Toilet Paper of Record.”
SJWs have known Seargent Incel runs the suicide site for at least two years. Surprised it took them so long to launch this sort of attack. Not that one needs to be an SJW to have concerns about such a site. There’s almost certainly going to be several sensitive, sweet and much loved young people who would have survived their suicidal phase if not for the site, and gone on to have meaningful lives. Cant blame parents and others who have lost loved ones to suicide for seeing this sort of site as evil. On the other hand, as even the mostly negative Vice piece concedes, some users have reported things such as receiving “more genuine support and empathy in this forum than anywhere else ever in my life.” So it’s likely saved lives too.
And theres the possibility that thousands face such adverse circumstances that suicide is their only realistic relief from a life of constant pain and bleakness. As a Christian Id like to think God wouldn’t allow that to happen, but realistically, I fear it does. Simone Weil said most people cant even bear to contemplate that such extreme affliction even exists. One can never be 100% sure about other peoples motives, but as far as I can tell, M & the Sergeant have the courage & compassion to assist those who receive at best unhelpful platitudes even from most well meaning people.
This just typical of the modern media. We spend vast amounts of effort concerning ourselves with the symptoms of problems rather than the causes.
It will not happen though because instutions like the NYT, were they to be introspective, may find themselves to be in some way part of problem.
“God wouldn’t allow that to happen”
He doesn’t – we do.
God’s hands are rather tied by human free will.
It’s rather like all the “conservative” websites that made AOC a powerful celebrity through their negative reporting. In today’s ungrounded, attention deficit disordered world, it no longer matters if attention is positive or negative. All that matters is attention itself. COVID hysteria is another example. If no one had reported on COVID, most people wouldn’t even have noticed that there was a deadly pandemic in our midst.
” If no one had reported on COVID, most people wouldn’t even have noticed that there was a deadly pandemic in our midst.”
Surely another unproveable, logical fallacy.
In the absence of state assisted death, I have had friends research the most effective ways to kill themselves – quickest, least pain, least mess, least chance of surviving with a disability. Report back was that finding information was difficult.
I find this very sensible and if the rag that is the NYT is smearing this site then I am sure the site has something to offer.
There’s no greater freedom than being able to decide when and where to end one’s own life.
What right does anyone else have to intervene?
I can think of much greater freedoms right off the top of my head.
“This is impossible to prove” Welcome to 2021
2021 is proven. In a short wile we will prove 2022.
No one at the NYT appears to have considered the possibility that making a spectacle of a fringe website on their pages might alert thousands of people who have a fascination with suicide to a website they may never have discovered on their own. It’s almost as if they can’t be trusted with a newspaper.
If the NYTs hates it there must be some good in it
If the NYTs hates it there must be some good in it