Posted by thuso on January 22, 2006, at 22:15:25
In reply to Treating death lightly *trigger*, posted by littleone on January 22, 2006, at 20:37:07
> I can understand you might think she's treating death lightly because of her previous posts, but that's making assumptions about her intent. In fact, I didn't see her treating things lightly. I just saw her stating a fact in an unemotional way.
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> I could easily say "I was going to xyz(insert method of death) when I visited the accident site, but didn't" and it may be a very unemotional fact when posted. But that certainly doesn't mean I treat it lightly.
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> But I can't see how that's different from what deneb posted.
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> I'd just like you to clarify if that sort of thing (ie my accident site example) would invoke a block.
>I think it may also have to do with the fact that she started off the paragraph with...
>Let's do some fun things in Toronto. Wanna go to the CN tower? I went once. I felt bad then and wished I could jump off, but it's impossible because of the way they designed the fence there.
>"Let's do some fun things..." and then talking about how how she wanted to jump off, but couldn't because of how the fence is designed is not like the sentence you gave as an example. The way she wrote it (even if she didn't mean to treat death lightly) went against what Dr. B gave as examples only 10 minutes prior. I'm guessing that if Deneb hadn't written "Let's do some fun things...", she wouldn't have been blocked. There are many ways she could have rewritten that paragraph to say the exact same thing that wouldn't have gotten her blocked. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. I hope she learns from this experience. Perhaps, whenever she is going to write a post that includes something relating to death, she can run it by someone before posting it. It will all be up to her.
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