Counterpoint: a reality that doesn’t make you want to kill yourself should be a thing that exists.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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While I agree, doing so is a practical impossibility.
The little club with all the media(aka mass propaganda), governmental, and police state power knows doing so would be against the interests of feeding their insatiable greed disease.
The powerless have proven more content fighting one another for scraps than uniting against them.
The world is what the world is. I know the more idealistic believe they are merely losing the class war, when the reality is the class war was lost decisively half a century ago, without meaningful opposition. This is class occupation.
My proposal would at least add mercy in a way the occupiers might accept, as it benefits them.
There are legal solutions to that problem in other countries, just not in America. There is a beer brewing company in the USA that sells a do it yourself kit that's supposed to be pretty foolproof. They sell the kit legally with the pretense that it will be used for beer brewing.
Disclaimer: I am not advocating that anyone takes their own life, although I do view that decision as each person's own business as long as they are sane, have good reasons for it, and are not making an impulsive decision.
I'm just imagining an unalive attempt that goes horribly wrong but results in a fantastic lager.
Devil's Reject Lager now on store shelves near you.
Nearly There IPA
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What do you mean isn’t available in America ?
It’s allowed in Oregon if you’re terminal. A few other states allow it as well.
I’m a strong advocate for allowing it. True freedom is making decisions about your destiny.
Soylent Green is people!
The issue is that oftentimes when one is suicidal or depressed it causes irrational thinking. This is what makes treatment so hard, it's not as simple as saying "your life is fine, get over it". You have to reconstruct their thinking which is why the most common and arguably effective treatment is CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)
A suicide booth is no different than free drugs to an addict or vodka to an alcoholic, just faster.
It's cruel and wasted potential for people who could be happy and live a normal and productive life.
Don't make it look like a phone booth.
This isnt a thing because of religion and capitalism. Religion isnt really relevant for most people nowadays. And since capitalism is using more automation and creates increased inequality, humans are transforming from an asset(potential unit of production) to a liability(potential for rioting).
I think we will see a sharp increase to the normalization of ending someone's life in the next few years/decades. And i am ok with that but it is important to realize that one of the main factors behind this change will be that we are a liability for an endgame capitalism, heavily automated world.
If people are so inclined they can DIY it pretty easily. To make it commercially viable, would require society to encourage this reduction. Most societies do not want to encourage reduction.
Imagining a future we where we had serious food scarcity, or energy scarcity, where we couldn't support the current population. I could see society creating a bunch of the Futurama type of opt-out booths everywhere. Just to get the numbers down
In the US, we have an aging population that is more aware of what we may face as we have more extra years of failing health. I would predict that offering the option after a certain age should become more socially acceptable. My husband and I would like to eventually go out together, but right now we'd have to go to Switzerland to do so. I wish I'd see more people discussing this, but I haven't.