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by DocTomoe 168 days ago
You also don't take into account that the userbase itself is shifting.

That being said: Those of us who grew up when the internet was still young remember alt.suicide.holiday, and when you could buy books explaining relatively painless methods on amazon. People are depressed. It's a result of the way we choose to live as a civilization. Some don't make the cut. We should start accepting that. In fact, forcing people to live on in a world that is unsuited for happiness might constitute cruel and unusual punishment.

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Maybe, just maybe, we should fix the fucked up world we created instead? Shunning the modern culture of individualism would be a great first step, followed by promoting communal culture. Live exactly how we evolved to live for hundreds of thousands of years.