Title: Val Kilmer calls out Anthony Bourdain for ‘selfish’ suicide
Reason: User Banned (Duration Pending): Downplaying mental health issues
I empathize with the mental aspect of it, I really do. But the actual act of suicide is an extremely selfish act. There is no getting around it. (IMO, I suppose) A person can still make selfish acts even under great emotional and mental instability. I really don’t want to get in a fight with people who suffer from depression, I think it really is a matter of semantics. A very poor analogy but I will use it anyways...a guy whose paranoid delusions tells him to kill that young girl cause she’s a demon...how we want to describe the act from his POV in criminal or social terms, that’s gonna change over time. But at the end of the day, the girl was murdered. No matter what disease he had that made him think the way he did will change that. Again, I don’t want to get tripped up in arguing wording...suicide and depression are problems society needs to address better and handle. But the act is indeed a selfish one.
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