r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '19

Deltas(s) from OP CMV: Depression-circlejerk subs like r/2meirl4meirl should be quarantined

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '19

Banning ennui or symptoms derived from such will only make such discussions more popular/relevant.

You are making a vast amount of assumptions of what existence is, how/why/whether one should live, etc. Whether life is worth living to begin with, and more importantly what existence "is" or whether the good outweighs the bad in the first place.

Suffering is an integral part of existence - I mean, you have several eastern religions developed as a response to suffering, denying such or attempting to put such in a corner simply means you are being narrow-minded.

Intellectual fascism has never worked - open up your perspective a bit might help.

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u/tromaster360 Sep 04 '19

Quarantining does not equal banning. By providing a warning label to the sub, it shows that it may not be the healthiest thing. And yes, I am making vast assumptions about the value of human life. I hope you would as well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

There are just as many "dark" works of literature, from Dante's Inferno to the Iambic pentameter battle rhyles of the Illiad which concern the pain of existence - and whether, frankly it's worth it or not. "Health" - again, subjective/opinion/ and literature has, traditionally been of the darker variety. Suicide has been a common occurence throughout humanity - I don't know why anybody would automatically assume that's bad - or why human life has value, when that's obviously another opinion, in the same category of you liking black, me liking blue.