On Sven;
I am not entirely sure how you can manifest some negative emotions toward an individual that is acting legitamently within the parameters of both his character, and the pretenses set upon his character. As previously mentioned in the strip, he has not been faithful before (as such this action is within the guidelines of his character), and he was not in a closed relationship (Faye only told him it was ok but that she would leave if he slept with anyone, which she did).There was at no point an agreement or solidfiication comicly known of the relationship to the point of exclusivity (or rather, they never came to an agreement of bf/ gf, even in the recent comic (#1335) she registers their relationship with curiosity saying "whatever sven and I are" instead of saying boyfriend or any proprietorship titles of known stages in a relationship (ie. b#$%^, friend, friends with benefit, boyfriend, fiance, wife, cetera)).
However, as well as obeying the guidelines assumed by his character, he has also remained honest to a fault about every stage of their relationship, and everything that happens during their relationship, and put up with the hardships / faults that Faye's moody nature has beset upon him.
On Suicide;
I'm not sure why this topic is in an online forum,
but it being here and me with several cents to spare I might as well share 2;
1. The glorification of both death, and life (as its hard to -logically- think one is important without the other one being too), are only things that people not in fear of the details of either can afford. With 6.4 million people alive today (not including the ones that have lived), and the average person only being able to be impressed upon by a very limited number (under a thousand I would guess, wiki monkeysphere for more details on the # a person can recognize), it is statistically probable that neither your life, nor your death will make any significant impact on... anything other than your own scope of reality/ circle of friends.
Instead of worrying about how to live, or how to die, or whether or not living or dying is the right thing, a person should take the path they think will be best for their emotional state (even if they think no emotional state is better than the one they are in now) in the long run. The only thing to lament is when someone chooses a permanent solution for a temporary problem, but its hard to tell if a problem is permanent or temporary when it is very psychologically compelling.
2. Do the people who think its cowardly also think that its cowardly to kill yourself when you've only got 1 months to live and it will be in great amounts of pain because of a medical condition? Or 3 months? or 6 months? and that 1 or 3 or 6 months would completely bankrupt their family and emotionally destroy the people they love? (Because it is harder on individuals to watch the ones they love suffer knowing they will die, than it is to watch them die quickly).
Oh well, I hope the length of this statement has provided adequate defense against being read.
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Ps. Hi, I'm not new tot he comic, just the forum. With the markets as they are I didn't feel like day trading and got bored, sorry I forgot introductions.