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by conistonwater 4330 days ago
Have you thought at all about the ethics of meddling in people's lives? [1]

This "service" seems contrary to basic notions of privacy and freedom.

[1] http://www.davidhume.org/texts/suis.html

1 comments

The only thing the service does is alert the friends of someone who appears to be about to end their own life, but who, for some reason, is posting about it on a public forum.

I can assure you that the service does no meddling whatsoever.

Someone who is swept by the depths of depression, and takes a last moment to emerge long enough to ask their friends for help -- well, I think that it is only fair to counterbalance the feed algorithms that try to keep the rest of us blissfully ignorant, and let them have the support that they ask for.

> alert the friends of someone who appears

That's meddling all right.