I agree with you: we do not do enough for our citizens. We should be doing way more. Where I disagree with you is preventing those who genuinely want to leave this world from doing so with dignity.
This isn’t a “fuck the ill, kill 'em”.
That is not what I’m presenting at all. Suicide is the the greatest freedom a single person has. That does not mean somebody else has to participate in that act. If somebody requests that help, the process should determine whether the person can be helped before granting that request.
You’re twisting the debate into something it’s not about. This isn’t a “let’s get rid of all the mentally undesirables” act.
What we’re talking about is that if you have a mental illness and you want to be unalive, you should have the option to be assisted in fulfilling that wish. Nowhere does it state “all depressed people must be killed”. Nowhere.
You’re presenting assisted suicide as if it’s just a “willy nilly” decision. People don’t “just” go to a physician and stick a needle in their arm. It’s a long process that involves careful evaluation.
Going “I didn’t kill myself and I’m happier for it” doesn’t make you the spokesperson of thousands of other people who are still here, suffering, and wishing they weren’t here anymore. You aren’t in their bodies. You aren’t them. They should be able to decide for themselves and if that means suicide, they should be able to do it with dignity, not by jumping in front of a car and messing up multiple lives in the process, or running amok and getting shot by a cop, or jumping from a building and traumatising those around them.
You shouldn’t get to make that choice. They should. That’s the discussion here.
Nice strawman.
Being against the death sentence doesn’t mean “let all killers free!”, just like being for assisted suicide regardless of mental illness or not isn’t “kill all the people with shrinks”.
Le Pen go suck a bull’s dick. She’ll say whatever is necessary to get to power. Especially if the Russians pay her to do it.
So people have to be mentally ill and in physical pain. What a great outlook for those mentally ill and seeking to end their misery. Now they have to hurt themselves too in order to be taken seriously.
“as a mom, I’m against child-protection”
You can be mentally ill and still wrong. Just because you’re affected doesn’t mean you’re right.
yeah, having tags for each community would be great.
“nobody”, nearly 50k people.
Asking people on mastodon if they use lemmy also doesn’t make much sense to me. I don’t use mastodon because it’s not threaded, people on mastodon probably don’t use lemmy for a similar reason. I’m not sure how many people use both threaded and unthreaded platforms, but it feels to me like the two layouts attract different people.
I’m not a developer, so I don’t know the actual effort involves, but it seems to me like making a new one is like reinventing the wheel. Matrix probably has solved many problems that this new things still has to run into.
What’s an SDK? I looked it up but can’t really understand the techno lingo on wikipedia. It’s a “kit” (whatever that means) that allows developing a platform specific app? Matrix isn’t another OS like Linux, so I’m confused.
Is matrix too difficult to develop or contribute to? Why do new chat apps keep popping up that do the same?
Pokemon is straight nightmare fuel, wtf?
LMAO! Coming back to nazi roots? Does this dude want to find a group of people to force to work for free ?
Tax this fucking guy’s wealth. He’s way too cozy in his damn ivory tower. #TaxWealthNotWork
Lol “use your emergency reserves, so that when things get worse (and they will get worse), the price will jump even higher”. They are called emergency reserves for a reason. This isn’t an emergency yet.
Watch “Extrapolations” (pirate it so you don’t give CrApple money). It’s a quite sober take on what could happen if we continue with business as usual.
All it took was an orangutan to start a war for the conservatives and liberals to suddenly like heat pumps.
A much wider range of drinks available compared to that drinking game where you try and bounce a coin into the receptacle in the middle of the table, if you miss, you put a bit of your drink into it. Whoever scores, can tell somebody else to drink.
Wow, prices have significantly changed. Holy shit.
And what about untreatable illnesses? And what about treatable but incurable illnesses that make life hell for the patient? Do you make a distinction between livable and unlivable anguish? Is “treatable” a binary that determines patients’ wellbeing?