Guilty: The implications of urging someone to commit suicide

La Belle Sauvage··7 votes·459 views

First I don't care about upvote or down votes. I care how we as a community of humans, that play this video game, treat each other. And I hope that people will stop typing KYS to other players while playing this game.

Let's embrace civility and empathy instead of apathy.

All I can do is keep the discussion going and ask people to consider their actions before typing foul acronyms.

  1. You can no longer claim that urging someone to kill themselves isn't a big deal and that no one would do it based on a mere suggestion via chat. Which is often the argument used in favor of allowing players to type kys.

  2. Just because people think possibility is low that someone will kill themselves should not be an argument for using it.

Let's help each other out, not tear each other down.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/us/michelle-carter-texting-case/index.html

My prior post https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/miscellaneous/LO6VvVw3-girlfriend-encouraged-her-boyfriend-to-commit-suicide

10 Comments

NinjaGuy693 votes

People who type those kinds of nasty comments to others are probably shitty, teenage brats who lack empathy for others (mainly because they were likely raised as entitled, privileged brats). If adults do it, on the other hand, then they're the one who are truly awful human beings. These people deserve the permabans that they eventually get.

Jo0o2 votes

Yes, and also in before somebody starts talking about social darwinism =\

Jo0o2 votes

Agreed wholeheartedly. You never know what kind of state people are in who are just trying to kick back and play a video game. At-risk high schoolers can play League just as easily as balanced adults.

La Belle Sauvage2 votes
Jo0o1 votes

Interesting read. Not sure how I feel about it yet.

Mental illness in law is really hard to define and treat fairly. If one person is susceptible to suicidal suggestion and another intentionally pushes them towards suicide, that seems legally punishable to me. I'm not sure if this is fair, but I want to equate it to walking along a bridge with somebody with no arms and then knocking them off. The breakdown of that analogy comes when you take into account that a suicide is by definition self-inflicted.

But... is it truly? If, say, a criminal on the run opts to shoot themselves rather than face jail time, that's truly their own action. Individuals with chronic, terrible, and painful conditions campaigning for the right to choose to end their own life rather than be forced to live in hell are often heralded as heroes. But depression and other mental conditions are dark, sinister forces that are difficult to quantify and define.

It's a dangerous precedent to set, but the opposite is also true: How can you legally NOT persecute such action? We'd have monsters hanging outside of therapist offices trying to convince people to jump into traffic.

Koonta Kintae1 votes

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La Belle Sauvage4 votes

Please refrain from being apathetic for the soul purpose of doing so.

Are you okay? If you need some one to chat with I'm willing to listen. But don't come here extolling the virtues of a person convicted of manslaughter.

Jo0o1 votes

Either a "dank" meme or a cry for help. What's up with you?

Ellis D1 votes

What a joke. #1 parents do not raise children anymore. If anyone is at fault for this persons death it's them 100% Do you have any idea how disconnected from your children you would have3 to be to not have any idea that they were going to kill themselves?

I like how the parents talk about him like they knew a god damn thing at all about him let alone that he was with a girl that was talking him into killing himself. They put on a good show with all the tears for the cameras i bet.

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