I would say that the guy just lost his son; he’s going to do a lot of things that we may see as irrational; lashing out at the internet is one of them. Blaming internet cameras would be another. Blaming the medicine that he used to overdose on would be another.
Dad just lost his son that he thought was better off now than he was months ago. This made the father jump to conclusions, find blame, and/or any other thing to grasp to displace the pain and anger over the suicide that he didn’t see coming at this point in time. Dad doesn’t want to blame the son for his own death, but he is willing to irrationally pin blame on the ingredients his son used for his own death.
It has nothing to do with who or what he (dad) wants to sue or shut down. Time will make him see that once he gets through the grieving process.
You have got to be shitting me. It’s easy to use the distance of it’s only the internet to hide behind expressing things that you wouldn’t dare to say in public, but you’re as responsible for your views nonetheless.
People encouraging someone they don’t know to commit suicide areengaging in cruelty. They left any claim to just being on the sidelines and watching Darfur happen when they said do it, even if it’s only over the internet.
It’s the difference between realizing that horrible things go on every day in the world that you have no control over aside from the vaguest sense and telling someone who is suicidal to do it. Encouraging someone you don’t know over the internet to kill themselves is believe it or not active cruelty.
Well said! That is a father going through intense grief and feelings of guilt. He is looking for something to blame, something to make it all make sense. Give the man a break.
If you have to ask, you’re too fucked up to understand it.
Really, you have to ask why telling someone who is suicidal to pull the trigger is active cruelty? Is just because you don’t actually know them an excuse? Really, take it to the real world. If you see a jumper on a high building and you’re one of those saying jump, then guess what? You encouraged it and in doing so you acted with cruelty. You wanted to see it happen and actively encouraged it.
Welcome to the real world? Cameras in your face and the media camped on your doorstep happens when your own personal tragedy happens and it’s got notoriety, whether you want your son’s death displayed to the world or not.
And of course the “media” held a gun to his head and forced him to give them an interview.
No one is required to speak to reporters under any circumstances. Personally, I think that people who insist on invading the privacy of people who are suffering from a recent personal tragedy are vultures and ghouls. If anyone ever shoved a microphone in my face and started asking me questions about “how I felt” under similar circumstances they’d be lucky if all they got from me is a direct “Fuck Off!” More likely they’d be looking for a doctor to remove the microphone from whichever of their orifices I’d inserted it.
I want you to articulate why you think it’s a bad thing, rather than just spluttering and saying, “Well, it just IS!” I’ve given reasons here for why apparent cruelty from an anonymous stranger is a morality-neutral thing (and you may note that I have not said anything about my personal opinions about what I would or wouldn’t do in that situation).
I think the dad’s irrationality is also affecting his judgment in regards to media attention as well. I believe he was reacting before he was thinking when he said what he said. Just me speculating.