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Zingoleb:
That's stating it lightly.
idontunderstand:
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--- Quote from: spoon_of_grimbo on 05 Aug 2011, 10:05 ---Being depressed or anxious are things you cannot necessarily help.
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And you know what they can do to your judgement?
Maybe you'll never make a seriously bad decision in your life; but if you do, perhaps you could think back to this conversation afterwards.
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so i suppose someone we should sympathise if someone goes and kills a bunch of people, or beats an animal to death, or some other such heinous crime, if they happened to be in a bad place, mentally, at the time?
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Sorry for them or not, such people suffer from a disease in some form. The same diseases can cause a person to abuse drugs. Personal tragedies such as Winehouse's don't start with the "choice" to inject yourself with heroin, it starts somewhere else. Go ahead, blame society or blame people for their mistakes, but you can't blame someone for being sad and depressed. Or maybe you can.
Mr. Doctor:
--- Quote from: idontunderstand on 07 Aug 2011, 12:36 ---you can't blame someone for being sad and depressed. Or maybe you can.
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Pfffff people do that all the time, just look at Shinji (ok that is just an anime but whatever)...
Akima:
--- Quote from: spoon_of_grimbo on 05 Aug 2011, 10:05 ---And furthermore, it is well out of line to imply I'm some kind of a bad person, simply because I refuse to have sympathy for these people.
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Er... Why? I mean, you're entitled to hold an opinion and express it, but nobody died and gave you some kind of privileged immunity from criticism, or even an entitlement to judgements you personally regard as fair. You certainly don't hesitate to dish it out to "these people", and some of them might have their own ideas about whether your remarks were "out of line".
--- Quote ---Note that my first post here merely said "I have little sympathy for the girl" - at no point did I try and shit on those who ARE sympathizing with her.
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In at least one case you called what they had to say "bullshit". If that's your opinion, fair enough, but take ownership of it.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: spoon_of_grimbo on 06 Aug 2011, 02:18 ---so i suppose someone we should sympathise if someone goes and kills a bunch of people, or beats an animal to death, or some other such heinous crime, if they happened to be in a bad place, mentally, at the time?
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Could be - if we knew the circumstances well enough. It wouldn't lessen the horror of what had happened, but that's not the only point. If course, we virtually never do know the circumstances in any detail, or even at all, which makes demonisation an easy choice if that's the way we're inclined.
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