Bold of you to assume I’m pretending to understand, you people need to stop projecting that other people who don’t share your exact thoughts haven’t experienced anything bad. That’s frankly just immature.
It's because you said "
You say that with the assumption that I have zero idea what people have gone through, that I do not understand them." when I made the statement "You don't understand.".
Your experience is yours alone, no matter how similar it is to another. So I believe it is a very bold statement to make. You can't expect one to be able to endure the same suffering as you did. Of course, I won't deny that we, as humans, to some degree have the same level of understanding. Thus, we can share the ability to feel pain and sympathize with each other. But we did not evolve to become completely identical nor have been exposed to the same environment.
In the past, I did not understand how drug abuse could drive someone to suicide. I don't imagine myself doing it and never understood why people would take drugs. Recently, I've learned how much some drugs could torment a person's body, so much they would want to end it by ending their life. I still don't know how painful it really is, but I've come to accept that there are people constantly suffering that unfortunately death is the only way out.
That encouraging comment isn’t directed at you, that’s directed at the dude who had a meltdown at me, and proceeded to tell me to suffer and be unable to take my own life while projecting a fake backstory onto me in some attempt to read me like a book.
Fair enough. I did make the same statement “you don’t understand” so I took that as a response to my comment. My apologies. I will redirect my comment to both sides of the two-sided argument to be completely fair.
Your last comment feels disingenuous because never once have I claimed ownership over someone’s life and decisions, shocker of shocks I’m using my personal experience in life to dictate my thoughts and feelings on the matter, but you people continue to make assumptions.
I will tone it down and rephrase it: "You have no right to say anything about what one chooses to do with their life". If your view that "suicide is selfish" is something that you apply to yourself alone and not project it onto others, then I have no issues with that.
The statement "
Over the years I’ve seen people get upset whenever someone calls suicide selfish, but the reality is just that, it is." particularly "
but the reality is just that, it is." is very strong as if it's establishing it is as general fact, rather than an expression of how you viewed it on your own life.
So I took issue on that. If that wasn't the intent, then I believe we can reach an agreement.
You’re the sane one who replied to my comments, your take while I don't totally agree isn’t bad, I want to make sure you know that.
Good to hear that then. I feel the strong need to make the point because I believe suicide shouldn't be a matter of arguing whether it's good/bad and what is right/wrong. Instead, we should be focusing our efforts on how to prevent it.
