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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
It is not rational for a teenager to kill himself on the internet in our culture. It is clearly irrational.
As for "wiser philosophies", please expand on that. Far as I can tell, this kid's cycle is over. He's dead.
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And yet everything else goes on.
If you see death as 'an end', then you cannot believe in cycles and can't throw that back in my face.
Cycles don't end. There is no such thing as 'his cycle is over'. Thats what a cycle is. It repeats. And everything we see in nature and science tends to agree with this. Something ends, something else begins, all connected. If you don't agree fine. But don't muddy things up by being contradictory. Either you agree or disagree.
As far as 'teenagers don't rationally kill themselves on the internet in our culture'? Wow, where to begin?
Well I guess, since the internet has been around for SOOOO LONG, I'm sure we have a bunch of data to show what is predictable emotional behavior when related to the internet.
In fact, lets take it a step further. A teenager in society. I think a lot of psychologists and psychiatrists would tell you, while there is a lot of work done on developing minds, we are nowhere near the level of science that can determine 'normal' for teenagers. That in fact their hormones and stress, make their behavior very abnormal to the rest of us.
Shoot, they only did reliable bully study/prevention over the last 5 years, which is what this clearly is.
Lastly, as far as 'wise philosophies', I would recommend anything that doesn't vilify death. Most modern religions, and therefore modern mindsets do. Without even knowing it.
'Death is something to be postponed to the very limits of human endurance and happiness.'
What? Why? Even if nothing happens after, why make yourself unhappy to prolong the inevitable? You're only making more unhappiness.
And if there is a transition, why delay it for suffering?
For all the scientific and logical people on this board, they seem to have missed this big one.