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(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 4/20/07 3:46 PM, Info Control at infodmz(a)gmail.com wrote:
On 4/20/07, Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 4/20/07 3:26 PM, Matthew Brown at morven(a)gmail.com wrote:
Whose National Suicide Hotline?
This:
http://suicidehotlines.com/national.html
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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