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Because this is a strucural thing. If we are to believe that not much changed, there are still ~57/1000 people who have an episode so severe as to make them co
by awild 9y ago
Because this is a strucural thing.
If we are to believe that not much changed, there are still ~57/1000 people who have an episode so severe as to make them consider suicide, of which 40 are stopped by the mere abscence of a simple method, there are still 57/1000 people whose lifes are so bad they honestly consider suicide.
Additionally, the researches do not say the people are not depressed before committing suicide, the research says they consider suicide with that specific method for just 30 minutes prior to killing themselves, their lifes and state of mind outside that 30 minute timeframe is not considered. And my assumption is that their lives had been bad before considering suicide, but something pushed them over the edge.
- Anderkent 9y agoOf course their lives are bad! No one claims this solves the entire problem. But claiming that it is not an improvement is falling for the same fallacy as to when people were complaining that peta was giving water to people for turning vegetarian. You don't have to fix everything - in fact no one ever can - to be helpful