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1. josefr+Q7[view] [source] 2025-10-07 16:54:01
>>locopa+(OP)
You cannot charge people for a crime... for their safety. These ideas are mutually excusive.
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2. mcherm+Z9[view] [source] 2025-10-07 17:03:49
>>josefr+Q7
Attempted suicide is criminalized in some jurisdictions for exactly that reason.
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3. ChrisM+BD[view] [source] 2025-10-07 19:19:53
>>mcherm+Z9
I suspect the real reason is to allow police to use their own discretion.

I deal with a lot of mentally-unstable people, and some of them are suicidal.

The thing to realize about suicidal people, is that they can be really dangerous to non-suicidal people.

"I'm not hurting anyone but myself." is a big fat lie.

I have friends that work for the railroad, and train engineers have to deal with folks that suicide by train. It's bad PTSD. In some cases, it may even cause the train to derail, which could injure or kill a lot of others.

Then, there's "suicide by cop." Those people tend to hurt a lot of folks, before they get their wish granted.

Not everyone just wanders off into the desert, or takes a bunch of sleeping pills (by the way, I invite anyone to ask the person that finds one of these "easy" suicides, how they feel about it).

And, then, of course, you have your suicide bombers, but they know what they are doing, and aren't telling themselves the "I'm not hurting anyone but myself." lie.

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