I think you know something is wrong when the most you can do is carry a mass-print sign somebody else handed you while chanting a slogan somebody else is shouting through a megaphone. But you're a good cog, and you can't quite put a name to the miasma gnawing on you
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It's not many generations ago that we were basically a loose-knit nation of criminally independent scofflaws. Now those people are nutcases we laugh at while our children hang themselves in their closets and we fantasize about the ~10 years we'll get between retirement & death
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A puzzle that irked me when I was younger: why do people kill themselves? Why don't they run away? Show up in a new town with a new identity? Rob a bank? Try heroin? Shouldn't anything be on the table? I didn't understand that if they still had any such spark, they could live
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It might have something to do with living in a society that doesn't have a strong preference for whether they kill themselves or become a person who can live well
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You can worry about whose fault it is but as a general rule that's the furthest thing from my mind
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I did not. Read more carefully.
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Explanations do not need to be a mechanism for assigning blame. I'm not even sure what it would mean to "blame" society; that's barely more sensible than "blaming" a hurricane. Perhaps I lack the clarity of thought of someone who thinks they know what I've said better than I do
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I just assumed you were using "blame" in the accusatory/judgmental sense. I don't think that's sensible, but the alternative you're proposing here is that you genuinely believe society isn't a causal agent re: violence, and that's just impossible to defend.
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