> What about Romeo and Juliet? What about the Bible ( Jesus )? What about Socrates? Our cultural icons committed suicide. Jesus didn't commit suicide; sacrific

> What about Romeo and Juliet? What about the Bible ( Jesus )? What about Socrates? Our cultural icons committed suicide. Jesus didn't commit suicide; sacrificing yourself for others is quite different from deciding you don't want to live anymore. As to your other two examples, what of them? Maybe reading Romeo and Juliet is an unhealthy thing for depressed people to do. Has anybody studied that? "[New thing] can't be bad because [old thing like it] exists" isn't an argument. It's also possible that watching a movie that's entirely about suicide, with dramatic music and visuals, has more of an emotional effect than reading a play that includes suicide. > So we do simply block everything anyone can say is bad for a small segment of the population? I wouldn't say "let's use the law to censor this". But I wouldn't celebrate, promote, or support it, either.