Amazon Is Knowingly Selling Suicide Kits To Kids
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The Amazon algorithm directs suicidal people towards pure sodium nitrite, which is popular on suicide forums, and the "frequently bought together" recommends bundling it with tagamet, an antiemetic to prevent vomiting, and a suicide handbook. Amazon has been sued about it before, so the execs are knowingly allowing it to continue. Since it's obviously not vital to their profits, the only explaination is that the execs are satanically pro-suicide.
Clown world keeps getting worse
It's been going on for a while, so it's about time to transition to Piss Earth.
2025, right? only 3 years to go
It's highly doubtful they don't already curate, and that list does elevate products that Amazon wants to promote. But even if that is true, they could stop selling a popular suicide agent with extremely niche labratory and industrial uses. Amazon already bans plenty of books and bomb making materials.
I agree and think you should be able to buy what you want, but it's funny how Google and YouTube and other social media platforms haven't exposed themselves to liability for manually curating content and search results.
They also removed several authors works afaik
Once again: where the fuck are the parents in these situations?
Busy working two shifts.
"Hold on I need a second job so I can afford a boat in the middle of a recession. The kids can learn whatever they need to know from Tiktok and Onlyfans because daddy is getting home late tonight. Im sure they'll turn out just fine via osmosis, just like I did." #livelovelaugh #crazylife
Unfortunately, this is not the case. To enjoy even a lower, middle-class lifestyle often requires multiple jobs. There is a breaking point where you can work less and get benefits and do ok or if you make a bit more, you have to foot the bill for the outrageous cost of insuring a family in America.
My brother's job offers insurance that would cost 80% of his take home pay if they were to cover him and the kids.
I pay what my beat up old vehicle is worth annually in insurance because the state requires it.
If you aren't handy and willing to put in the elbow-grease to make shitty products at least livable, you pay a premium to keep up with house/vehicle maintenance. The choice sometimes is between being Money rich and Time poor or being Money poor and Time poor
This.
It is well documented that actual purchasing power has been declining since the 1970's. Inflation hides it because salaries keep rising, but the middle class has taken a huge pay cut because their money doesn't go as far.
At the same time, I see armies of brand new RVs towing trailers with ATVs every summer, and I wonder how the hell people are affording those. I'm pretty well off and I wouldn't even consider such extravagance. Either I'm just seeing the most well-off people on the highway or their in debt to the gills buying all that crap on credit.
I read something that said that wages have doubled since the 70s but the cost of living has gone up six-fold.
We're gonna not sell things to people now that "when swigged cause a painful death"? That's a lot of things.
Someone accidentally swigged a massive amount of caffeine (10g or so; he thought it was protein powder but wasn't put off by the bitter taste - go figure) in Australia (I think) and there were calls to ban sales of caffeine powder.
The nanny state
That was my first thought, too. Useful chemicals shouldn't be banned because some retards are too dumb to use them.
However, the further you read the tweets the more ambiguous it gets. They didn't just sell some chemical. They bundled several chemicals ... and a suicide instruction book.
Those are details. Complain to Amazon if you want. They are SJWs so maybe the will do something about it. There shouldn't be a legal case, however. I don't care if a company does sell you a "suicide kit." You're solely responsible for how you use it. Just like how the makers of guns are not responsible for your "off label" use.
If someone wants off this rock, he will find a way off.
We dont have to help him but the idea that restricting any one method will "save" him is naive.
Kids and teens are fickle. Accessibility of method variety might well be a factor.
I think we can all agree that the suicide chemical could be age restricted.
TPTB don't want you doing either of those so expect to lose that if this gets enough attention.
Depressed teenagers are just bundles of cells.
If they can't cook or earn a living wage, that means that they're not independent living beings, so it's fine to abort them at any time.
Zoomers have the highest mental illness rate.
Social media + (( MANIPULATION BY THEM )) + overprotective Gen X parents are causing this.
UE did a video of this just the other day.
Whenever there is evil afoot Perkins Coie is right in the middle, on the side of said evil.
On one level, so what?
Suicide ought to be made painless and convenient for those so inclined.
The Sarcopod is just the thing for the more affluent: https://www.exitinternational.net/sarco/ (I find myself promoting this device whenever the issue of suicide arises.)
As Camus said, "The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not."
Those who fail to arrive at a personal meaning and purpose for their lives might as well snuff it when things go sideways. The bitter irony is that for many people, becoming a parent gives meaning and purpose to life, so when a child decides to commit suicide, he kills a big part of his parents along with himself.
Some atheist once said that we are merely vectors for the DNA molecule, but I don't reduce life, certainly not my own life, to such a mechanical utilitarian purpose. Another way to look at it is that Life wants to grow and expand . . . the purpose of life is the living of it and making of more of it, protecting the living and reducing conditions that lead to suffering.
My sympathies to any parents whose children have killed themselves prior to coming of age. There's no good reason for someone so young to give up to existential despair, given that he's usually not really experienced enough of the horror of existence to make the decision rationally.