...or, you know, we could just fix the underlying social injustices that cause so many people to seek to end their lives that it causes friggin delays in my busy little life. Those jerks.
A story. Up here in Vancouver, the police recently released a study showing that the thing we did in the nineties -- ending welfare and closing institutions for the severely mentally ill -- actually cost us vastly more, because the police ended up doubling as nurses/counsellors/social workers, and the additional training cost vastly more than the original division of labour.
What is the annual cost of leaving the hurt hanging?
- Frank: People keep killing themselves.
- Larry: Put up a wall.
- Frank: Nah, too expensive.
What do you really think of Frank and Larry in this sitch? Be honest.
Now, how is that different from what y'all were saying...?
Cognitive dissonance reaches for the -1. Had you paid slightly more attention to your discomfort, you could have learned something about yourselves.
By the way, I think Larry is a genius and a comedian in your situation because what the fuck else can you say to a blanket statement like "People keep killing themselves"?
HN will mature as a platform for discourse when it becomes less of a concentrator of one particular worldview and more of a reactor of many.
- Larry: Put up a wall.
- Frank: Nah, they'll just jump off it
FTFY
It seems that you have extrapolated both these things from the fact that someone has proposed a technical solution to suicide, which is completely illogical. There is strong evidence that removing popular, easy methods of suicide actually reduce suicide rates.