Flight 2059 from Everett, Washington, was bound for San Francisco when it was diverted to Portland, where Joseph David Emerson was booked on 83 counts of attempted murder.
If we gave people who don’t want to be here anymore access to safe, effective, painless, suicide, desperate people wouldn’t have to resort to desperate methods of opportunity that can harm others.
We aren’t willing to be a society. We could not be more clear on that point. Visit one of your local tent cities where we leave defective capital batteries to die of exposure and police harassment if you’re still hazy on this fact. We aren’t willing to help the struggling in anything but empty rhetoric about how, lol, compassionate we consider ourselves. The least we could do is offer an out that doesn’t cause a scene or externalized death. Hell, turn it into an industry let our capitalist owners profit more off of it, win/win.
Inb4 “this bastard tried to kill others, they deserve no mercy!” yeah, when you’re suicidal, you aren’t exactly able to think outside your own pain, even more reason not to continue to let death by gun purchase be the current gold standard of American suicide.
While I agree that most of the talk about helping those struggling is empty I think it’s a bit disingenuous to imply suicide by airplane was the only option available to him. This happened in America were there are almost as many guns as people. Hurting others during a suicide attempt by trying to crash a plane is a choice.
We definitely need better mental health resources but killing 83 other people wasn’t his only option.
As stated, when you’re suicidal, you aren’t really looking beyond your own pain and opportunities to end it. It’s easy for someone who is doing all right to tell someone in white hot anguish what they should have done.
Your response is indemic of the crisis of empathy in this country. It’s easy for a rich person to tell a poor person what they should have done instead of stealing. Our people much prefer the easy way of casting judgment and advocating maximum punitive vengeance so that they can play pretend we live in a black and white, just nation and world, where everyone earned what they have and the suffering did something to deserve it.
The hard thing would trying to understand for what drove one of our people to this madness to begin with, and maybe even help. But that would be extremely un-American. Hoo boy, lets deep fry his ass boy howdy! Gonna get assed raped in prison itellyouwhat that’ll teach him to… value the sanctity of the lives of himself and others?
If he’s not thinking clearly, why he would he choose your proposed suicide method? It’s a more rational choice but like you’ve said this isn’t a decision being made rationally.
The same reason that people like him choose methods that can fail by being inturrupted, by failure of method, or by possibility of permanent disability/disfigurement rather than death.
Certainty.
The offer of going to an office with a guarantee of an end would stop the vast majority of other methods where one must overcome that lack of certainty to make the attempt. Even a gunshot to the head can and does fail, leaving matters significantly worse for the individual.
I’m not saying it would stop everyone, but it would stop a great many of desperate people from buying guns or running into traffic while in a bad place and potentially using it on someone they feel is the cause before themselves, or situations like this.
Some people want to go out loud, but that isn’t the norm. The goal is usually just going out with a minimum of suffering, with the loudness of the act being a symptom of the person’s opportunities for attempts, ie what they can and cannot access.
What a shitty take. No amount of suicidal thoughts or emotional disturbance he had could’ve justified the murder of 83 innocent people, all with their own lives, loved ones, experiences… You are trying to justify their eradication by saying that it’s excusable to kill people if you are depressed.
I chose staring down ugly truths over the bliss of ignorance a long time ago. It’s my core value, and I understand why most don’t, it isn’t a pleasant way to think or live.
If we gave people who don’t want to be here anymore access to safe, effective, painless, suicide, desperate people wouldn’t have to resort to desperate methods of opportunity that can harm others.
We aren’t willing to be a society. We could not be more clear on that point. Visit one of your local tent cities where we leave defective capital batteries to die of exposure and police harassment if you’re still hazy on this fact. We aren’t willing to help the struggling in anything but empty rhetoric about how, lol, compassionate we consider ourselves. The least we could do is offer an out that doesn’t cause a scene or externalized death. Hell, turn it into an industry let our capitalist owners profit more off of it, win/win.
Inb4 “this bastard tried to kill others, they deserve no mercy!” yeah, when you’re suicidal, you aren’t exactly able to think outside your own pain, even more reason not to continue to let death by gun purchase be the current gold standard of American suicide.
While I agree that most of the talk about helping those struggling is empty I think it’s a bit disingenuous to imply suicide by airplane was the only option available to him. This happened in America were there are almost as many guns as people. Hurting others during a suicide attempt by trying to crash a plane is a choice.
We definitely need better mental health resources but killing 83 other people wasn’t his only option.
As stated, when you’re suicidal, you aren’t really looking beyond your own pain and opportunities to end it. It’s easy for someone who is doing all right to tell someone in white hot anguish what they should have done.
Your response is indemic of the crisis of empathy in this country. It’s easy for a rich person to tell a poor person what they should have done instead of stealing. Our people much prefer the easy way of casting judgment and advocating maximum punitive vengeance so that they can play pretend we live in a black and white, just nation and world, where everyone earned what they have and the suffering did something to deserve it.
The hard thing would trying to understand for what drove one of our people to this madness to begin with, and maybe even help. But that would be extremely un-American. Hoo boy, lets deep fry his ass boy howdy! Gonna get assed raped in prison itellyouwhat that’ll teach him to… value the sanctity of the lives of himself and others?
If he’s not thinking clearly, why he would he choose your proposed suicide method? It’s a more rational choice but like you’ve said this isn’t a decision being made rationally.
The same reason that people like him choose methods that can fail by being inturrupted, by failure of method, or by possibility of permanent disability/disfigurement rather than death.
Certainty.
The offer of going to an office with a guarantee of an end would stop the vast majority of other methods where one must overcome that lack of certainty to make the attempt. Even a gunshot to the head can and does fail, leaving matters significantly worse for the individual.
I’m not saying it would stop everyone, but it would stop a great many of desperate people from buying guns or running into traffic while in a bad place and potentially using it on someone they feel is the cause before themselves, or situations like this.
Some people want to go out loud, but that isn’t the norm. The goal is usually just going out with a minimum of suffering, with the loudness of the act being a symptom of the person’s opportunities for attempts, ie what they can and cannot access.
Maybe you are the one lacking empathy here if you think that it is right and defendable for someone to eradicate 83 lives because they are depressed.
Please learn to read
What a shitty take. No amount of suicidal thoughts or emotional disturbance he had could’ve justified the murder of 83 innocent people, all with their own lives, loved ones, experiences… You are trying to justify their eradication by saying that it’s excusable to kill people if you are depressed.
Your lit teacher had a lot of discussions with your parents, eh?
Not even a single word above you is a justification, any more than advocating for fire safety regulations is justifying wildfires.
You wanna try reading it again? Take it slow, sound out the words?
I don’t want to agree with you, but I do.
I chose staring down ugly truths over the bliss of ignorance a long time ago. It’s my core value, and I understand why most don’t, it isn’t a pleasant way to think or live.