Yes, human beings working toward a goal, and one thing that goal is not is counseling people. Suicide hotlines are not hard to find, and furthermore its not our duty to help them find it. I could potentially go work as an aid worker in Iraq and save lives. So could you. But we dont, because we have more pressing things in life. Just like we have more pressing things on the encyclopedia. When Pat Parker up and decided he wanted to off himself, I was the first one to do anything. I got in contact with who I deduced his school to be, let them know about the situation, and others followed suit. I dont want someone to kill themselves. But dealing with the issue on the 'pedia was a major, major distraction to our work, and should not be tolerated. People aren't stupid. If they want a suicide hotline, they can find it. Its not our mission to present it, and it leaves us open to trolls who know we'll respond, because we have to from a moral point. Its not worth it to allow it on the wiki. And as a further note, if you have to announce it on an online encyclopedia instead of real world friends and family, you know, people who truely are supposed to care about you, well. Either they're not telling those because its not a serious and we should just leave the immature idiots alone, or if they dont have them, well, that life sucks to the point that they may be better off.
On 4/21/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 4/20/07 3:46 PM, Info Control at infodmz@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 4/20/07 3:26 PM, Matthew Brown at morven@gmail.com wrote:
Whose National Suicide Hotline?
en.wikipedia.org, not american.wikipedia.org. ;)
Why would we practice advocacy here?
Because we are, presumably, human beings - who, hopefully, care about other human beings.
Marc
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