To be deeply cynical about this - depressed people, myself included, tend to be less “productive” than others. Thus, we don’t “contribute” as much to the current deeply rotten society, and I guess we also don’t consoom as much. At my most depressed, I kind of just “existed” for a while, and society really doesn’t like that…
So I suppose by killing off the depressed and otherwise mentally ill, it makes more room for those who don’t question things, and who just go about their lives, plodding along in their “careers” and making money for corporate..?
But honestly I’m not sure. There are definitely plenty of people who see the depressed (again, myself included) as a “burden” on society, so… I suppose state-sanctioned voluntary euthanasia plays into that.
Futurama took this to its ultimate end with the suicide booths, and Bender, in an early episode.
Honestly, it’s kind of crazy to think that we’re probably closer to that then we will ever be to something like… Space elevators, or whatever.
I am diagnosed with a "working" or non destructive depression also. I find the notion of "euthanasing" people like us dangerous. Even worse when it is done to minors like in Canada iirc. No one should be murdered by the state for depression. I get it if you have severe permanent pain, maybe a week to live due to cancer etc. Depression and other neurological stuff will have people misdiagnosed way more and cause needless death in the near future, calling it now.
My guess is legal murder, if all it takes for you to kill someone legally is a doctor's note with whatever malady makes it legal then you can essentially just have a doctor or doctors on a payroll to provide the false diagnosis and you can eliminate people that are stepping on the toes of the rich and powerful or are stepping out of line.
Of course for the vast majority of the "patients" they will just be noice to drown out the sketchy ones.
"You look a little depressed" should become a new way for people to threaten murder in meme formats so we can at least laugh at the absurdity. Or some variation of it at least
I've seen "you should Canadian Healthcare yourself" picking up some traction here and there. That one functions well for an aggressive insult, but "you look a little depressed" sounds like a great veiled threat similar to "what a nice family you have there."
Thin edge of the wedge to make government euthanasia acceptable.
Starts with the sympathetic cases- painfully terminal patients. After that is apathetic cases- suicidal or depressed. Finally is sociopathic- undesirables/criminals.
Then they redefine criminal to include disruptive elements, and that's all the justification they need to permanently remove any political opposition.
Ngl, when I read sportswoman I thought of Basketball Americans first.
It's insane how we now kill people because of depression... What's the endgame with this? Eradication of more humans by the elite caste?
To be deeply cynical about this - depressed people, myself included, tend to be less “productive” than others. Thus, we don’t “contribute” as much to the current deeply rotten society, and I guess we also don’t consoom as much. At my most depressed, I kind of just “existed” for a while, and society really doesn’t like that…
So I suppose by killing off the depressed and otherwise mentally ill, it makes more room for those who don’t question things, and who just go about their lives, plodding along in their “careers” and making money for corporate..?
But honestly I’m not sure. There are definitely plenty of people who see the depressed (again, myself included) as a “burden” on society, so… I suppose state-sanctioned voluntary euthanasia plays into that.
Futurama took this to its ultimate end with the suicide booths, and Bender, in an early episode.
Honestly, it’s kind of crazy to think that we’re probably closer to that then we will ever be to something like… Space elevators, or whatever.
I am diagnosed with a "working" or non destructive depression also. I find the notion of "euthanasing" people like us dangerous. Even worse when it is done to minors like in Canada iirc. No one should be murdered by the state for depression. I get it if you have severe permanent pain, maybe a week to live due to cancer etc. Depression and other neurological stuff will have people misdiagnosed way more and cause needless death in the near future, calling it now.
My guess is legal murder, if all it takes for you to kill someone legally is a doctor's note with whatever malady makes it legal then you can essentially just have a doctor or doctors on a payroll to provide the false diagnosis and you can eliminate people that are stepping on the toes of the rich and powerful or are stepping out of line.
Of course for the vast majority of the "patients" they will just be noice to drown out the sketchy ones.
"You look a little depressed" should become a new way for people to threaten murder in meme formats so we can at least laugh at the absurdity. Or some variation of it at least
I've seen "you should Canadian Healthcare yourself" picking up some traction here and there. That one functions well for an aggressive insult, but "you look a little depressed" sounds like a great veiled threat similar to "what a nice family you have there."
It's just another method to reduce the white population.
Obviously yes. Giving the government an excuse to kill undesirables is going to be heinously easy to abuse.
"What's that? Your friend wasn't depressed? You're clearly just depressed at having lost a friend."
Thin edge of the wedge to make government euthanasia acceptable.
Starts with the sympathetic cases- painfully terminal patients. After that is apathetic cases- suicidal or depressed. Finally is sociopathic- undesirables/criminals.
Then they redefine criminal to include disruptive elements, and that's all the justification they need to permanently remove any political opposition.