[2020] Can we all agree that encouraging suicide is wrong?

In wilderness related threads there's some kind of toxicity, often with encouragements of suicide. It goes beyond just those discussions, but it's very common in them.

In this thread for example, OP brings a bunch of stone spirits to disappoint the PKer with when they die - which isn't what I'm talking about, but rather - what the top comment was for quite a while:

You should add in rope and a flat pack chair for ultimate trolling

And even after this comment fell from grace, my comment arguing against encouraging suicide - something you'd really, really hope isn't controversial - was still downvoted to sh*t, currently, at least 24 times, meanwhile that comment encouraging OP to encourage suicide is not even at -5, if even in the negatives (current score hidden).

And there's plenty of comments supporting it, or continuing to make a joke of it:

it is a little bit funny

And definitely deserved.

Nah man hes just giving him the chair and rope so he can sit down and wrangle some lava strykes

Or saying they also do it.

Obviously it isn't all bad in that thread, but it's not like this is the first time this kind of thing has happened either - I've seen it for years and years and years.

I just really want us all to say it - it isn't okay to encourage suicide.

Can we just do that? Please.

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Originally posted by WasV3

Its fine when done among friends when you know they are in a mental state where it won't affect them, apart from that its bad.

But at the same time, I too could make a post where I frame pking as putting undue stress on peoples mental health and you wouldn't like that

Even in a friends scenario, I don't think it's something you should do, these are some of the reasons why it can still be bad that a friend once told me.

Your friends could have experienced something in the past that they haven't told you about and it could hurt them (eventhough it's a joke)
There might be bystanders that will catch the words you say and it could hurt them
There is a higher likelyhood of it being used in other conversations because you are used to it.
Suicide is a very serious topic and making fun of it, even if it's just to your friends, would suggest you don't consider it something of that nature.

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