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Sorry, maybe I didn't articulate that very well. Thanks for pointing that out. (Sites like this tend to favor short punchy responses lol)
I didn't mean like "haha lol rofl lulz" funny, but I appreciated how succinctly they pointed out the logical ridiculousness, the sheer morbid absurdity, of such a forum existing in the first place, and asked the question: "Well if what they're encouraging is so great, why haven't they done it themselves?" Which, logically, would likely end the forum itself.
It's like a self-defeating concept. It shouldn't be able to exist by its own definition.
Laying that out got a guilty chuckle out of me because it's such a bizarrely awful thing to exist and it was so simple a thought process to show how little sense it makes.
I only wish it was so obviously absurd to anybody who would dare to seek "community" there, but when people are beat down that much, it must be easy to miss the signs.
So absolutely, this is serious business and it really begs the question as to the motives of the people running it. Doubtful they're benevolent in the slightest. "Three tiny serial killers in a trenchcoat" feels pretty likely.
It's darkness through and through, and should be handled with utmost care and tact. I highly doubt anybody receives any actual "care" from this community, and would imagine its legacy is massive irreparable harm.
At worst, it's crowdsourced murder via psychology without any accountability on behalf of the perpetrators, when the victims could have possibly been led to better lives with the right intervention.
That's a terrifying thought.
But yeah, I didn't mean to make light of anything. I only saw humor as a useful tool in cutting through the lies of the concept.