Ed Piskor was hounded into suicide over #meto accusations. He named names in his suicide note.
Ethan Van Scriber talks about it on twitter.
I read about this on Ace of Spades
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What is interesting to me we got a lot of media or to some extent dealing with suicide in which the instigator is a identifiable party, but most of the time the narrative is more about overcoming the will to die / escape / improve rather than making a last stand, although to be fair the east got a lot more schlock in which the last stand is part of it. I guess what my ramblings is wondering about is this something that is being pushed from above in psychology or does it have other roots?
Its an extension of the idea of "all life is inherently valuable." Which is only really seen in Western Nations and their Individualism.
But if all life is worth something then preventing suicide is always the top priority, as well as not killing others. Even if in both cases you could logically argue the net benefit to doing so.
Its a huge topic to get into whether that's wrong or right, but I think its a natural downstream from those ideas inherent to our culture that is bigger than Left or Right.