# Ripping AcidKid a new asshole is always a viable option. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 20, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346 "2003-02-20T16:15:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/61 "2003-02-21T16:59:10Z")
**BURNER** , do yourself a favor: shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/62 "2003-02-21T16:59:52Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Homebrew_ > If you can ask this question seriously, then I have to wonder about your humanity. What’s to wonder ? If it talks like vermin and acts like vermin, it _is_ vermin. ---
**Author:** ![EasyPhil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@EasyPhil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EasyPhil)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/63 "2003-02-21T17:04:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by THespos \* > This isn’t about free speech or censorship, **BURNER**. This is about respect for human life. Who’s responsible for respecting human life when the person that possess the life doesn’t respect it or doesn’t want it? Isn’t it a paradox that you can risk your life for the greater good of others and that’s viewed as heroic but if you take your own life for your own personal reasons it’s not viewed as such? Maybe the larger discussion should be in GD? ---
**Author:** ![BURNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@BURNER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BURNER)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/64 "2003-02-21T17:11:58Z")
originaly by: **Thespos** > [@](#): > > ## #2 Why should I care about some total strangers life?? It isnt my concern if they want to kill themself. I didnt make them depressed and the only real advice I could offer is to cut down and not accross [sic] > > Are you missing a fucking chromosome? It would certainly explain your callous disregard for human life. I can only hope you’re reminded of this sick comment one day when you’re down on your luck. You still didnt explain why I should care. As far as being down on my luck goes, I have been there before and could probably be there again before my number is up. Life can be a real bitch sometimes, you can either live it and get through it or give up and fade away. Everyone has a choice to make the most of what they have got. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/65 "2003-02-21T17:12:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\ ***BURNER** , do yourself a favor: shut up. \*\* Could you super size that? ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/66 "2003-02-21T17:20:29Z")
\*Originally posted by **EasyPhil** … > [@](#): > > Who’s responsible for respecting human life when the person that possess the life doesn’t respect it or doesn’t want it? Isn’t it a paradox that you can risk your life for the greater good of others and that’s viewed as heroic but if you take your own life for your own personal reasons it’s not viewed as such? Maybe the larger discussion should be in GD? To answer the first part of your question, people are often suicidal due to treatable conditions. That’s why we advise people who are suicidal to seek professional help. No, I don’t consider the situation you describe to be a paradox. A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement. I wouldn’t consider it a contradiction that suicide is not seen as “heroic,” given that people who are suicidal are usually in need of treatment for a disorder. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/67 "2003-02-21T17:32:31Z")
> [@](#): > > You still didnt explain why I should care. As for why you should care, if you can’t answer this yourself, I can’t help you. Respect for human life is a cornerstone of civilized human behavior. If that doesn’t click with your schema, then you’re probably beyond help. > [@](#): > > Everyone has a choice to make the most of what they have got. See my response to **EasyPhil** above. The situation for many is not nearly as clear-cut as you describe. People can suffer from depression or other conditions that cloud their judgment and their perception of themselves. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/68 "2003-02-21T17:35:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BURNER \* > \*\ ***#2** Why should I care about some total strangers life?? It isnt my concern if they want to kill themself. I didnt make them depressed and the only real advice I could offer is to cut down and not accross. I have to wonder how you survive day to day if you seriously get sucidal over things you read on a fucking internet message board. God forbid something seriously bad were to happen. It could be the end for someone. \*\* You are a 100% piece of shit scum. Just in case you weren’t aware. We’re not talking about millions of anonymous starving people in Faminlyvania, we’re talking about A MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY. We’re talking about a person not “not caring” but rather saying something TO SOMEONE’S FACE that may cause them to DIE. When someone is in a position like that, contemplating suicide… bah I can’t even go on. There is a name for people like you: _sociopath_ **EasyPhil** : you apparently know nothing about depression. Most people who are suicidal have a chemical problem that causes them to have irrational emotional responses. Given proper medical attention, they DON’T tend to want to die. It’s sort of like blaming an untreated diabetic person for having sugar problems. Handing a suicidal person a rope is so completely ---
**Author:** ![BURNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@BURNER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BURNER)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/69 "2003-02-21T17:38:59Z")
I can see your point, **THespos**. I dont realy agree with it, but I do see it. Truce? ---
**Author:** ![BURNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@BURNER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BURNER)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/70 "2003-02-21T17:55:15Z")
originaly by **OpalCat** > [@](#): > > You are a 100% piece of shit scum. Just in case you weren’t aware. Thank you , I realy do try. > [@](#): > > We’re not talking about millions of anonymous starving people in Faminlyvania, we’re talking about A MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY. We’re talking about a person not “not caring” but rather saying something TO SOMEONE’S FACE that may cause them to DIE. > > When someone is in a position like that, contemplating suicide… bah I can’t even go on. Actualy we are talking about millions of anonymous people. Can you put a face with my name?? If you cant then that pretty much makes me anonymous. If someone saying “go ahead jump” on a message board is going to make someone jump off of a roof, then maybe they were already beyond hope. This is just words on a computer screen!! It would be a little diffrent is Acid Kid drove to someones house and handed them a loaded gun a long with a speech on the virtues of suicide. He didnt. All he did was say that he had options. This reminds me of the guy who killed himself because he lost a game of “Everquest”. It is just words on a screen , not the end of the fucking world!! > [@](#): > > There is a name for people like you: sociopath And?? you say it like it is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/71 "2003-02-21T18:04:46Z")
So just because you haven’t met someone face to face they are therefore anonymous and inconsequential? And because someone is in a really low spot in their life, that means that it’s ok to push them over the edge? I never had an opinion of you before, but now… and I know this will break your heart… I hate you. Actively and thouroughly hate you. And I don’t hate very many people. There are other things I’d say, but they would get me banned. And you can’t “lose” in Everquest, moron. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/72 "2003-02-21T18:09:25Z")
It **IS** a bad thing you knuckledragging pinhead. Shit - I’ve divorced more compassionate people than you… ---
**Author:** ![BURNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@BURNER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BURNER)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/73 "2003-02-21T18:24:57Z")
OMG!! **OpalCat** hates me!! Whatever will I do now?? Hide all the sharp knifes and pills. You better take my shoe laces and belt too , there is no telling what I might do. Message board politics are the center of my tiny world and now that someone actively hates me I dont know if I can go on. I might just kill myself because I am so broken up!! What the fuck ever !! The day something someone writes on a message board moves me to anything other than amusement is the day I hang it up. If Someone cant handle something as trivial as the internet then how on earth do they handle living real life? There are more important things in this world. **Missy2U** ,What is bad to you isnt bad for everyone. Please dont paint me with you morality brush. Good and bad are subjective subjects. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/74 "2003-02-21T18:38:04Z")
When the fuck did good and bad become subjective? If you have any sort of rational morality at all good and bad are not subjective. Or are you subscribing to some sort of post-modernist bullshit here? Enlighten me. Now I agree that we do not have to care for everybody - but people ought to get the benefit of the doubt, and support, until they prove they are undeserving of such. Undeserving, like Pol Pot, Henry Lee Lucas, and _ **BURNER** _ This thread started as a flame on **AcidKid** , but he has nothing on this shitbag ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/75 "2003-02-21T18:42:13Z")
“something as trivial as the internet” is about the stupidest phrase I’ve ever heard. The internet is a tool. In situations like this, it is a communication tool. A way for real, living human beings to communicate with each other. The means by which people communicate does not matter. It is sheer idiocy to claim that the link between people is “trivial” because of the method by which they communicate. I could cite the number of marriages that have resulted _from this community alone_ as proof, but somehow I don’t think your tiny brain could grasp the concept no matter how many cites I provided. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/76 "2003-02-21T18:53:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BURNER \* > \*\ ***World Eater** do me a favor, Die. \*\* Well if I ever jump, I’ll be aiming for you. Rest assured. ---
**Author:** ![BURNER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@BURNER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BURNER)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/77 "2003-02-21T18:58:53Z")
well, **UnwrittenNocturne** good and bad are the most subjective things on the planet and are based on nothing more than the whims of society at large. To give you a few examples, there was a time not so long ago when marijuana and cocaine were legal. Does that mean that they werent wrong? There was a time when slavery was both legal and encouraged. Were slave owners wrong then or are they just wrong now?? There was a time when dueling to the death was the way to deal with an insult to someones honor. Now killing in defense of your honor is called “murder”. There are some states with laws on the books that outlaw oral sex, does that make it wrong?? The samurai of Japan looked at suicide with honor, but in the U.S. suicide is looked down upon. Who has the “right” opinion on the subject? To contiue with the hijack, untill you can bring me a universal list of things that everyone on the planet agrees on as the “right and good” thing I will continue to view it as the subjective entity that it is. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/78 "2003-02-21T19:00:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BURNER \* > \*\*OMG!! **OpalCat** hates me!! Whatever will I do now?? > > \ > I might just kill myself because I am so broken up!! \*\* BURNER, take your own advice and cut down and not across… At least AcidKid has the sense to lay low for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/79 "2003-02-21T19:09:36Z")
I told you it would break your heart. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346/80 "2003-02-21T19:09:51Z")
BURNER: Legality has little to nothing to do with morality. Nor should it. You are simply creating a strawman in bringing that up, and perhaps diverting attention from your own Neanderthal lack of ethics. You are just the type of asswipe Rand was talking about in her ethics when she mentioned the ‘lone wolf’ - read: Predatory sociopath [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ripping-acidkid-a-new-asshole-is-always-a-viable-option/156346.md?page=5)