I'll question your manifesto's statement that TS threads do not warrant participation as long as it exists.
I've had several of your disciples tell me exactly the opposite today when I urged them to venture outside the sbr.
But yet, here they have signed on with their own sbr manifesto living wills. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
I wonder, can I use "death merchants" on this thread, without being insulted as an insane, emotional moron? Or do I have to actually prove that there is a death industry in America that is very pleased with the prospects for future business right now, before I can use "death merchants"?
Thanks for the bump!
I already have one outstanding question to you, but I'll add another for the heck of it. Were the doctors and medical administrators who made the decision in the Sun Hudson case "death merchants"?
So... we're criticized for engaging in "group think" (#730), and now we're criticized for thinking for ourselves.
Can you guys make up your minds?
It's all in what kind of effect you want to have. Clearly, using emotionally charged launguage like 'death merchant' is on par with using a term like 'baby killer' or 'jackbooted thug'. It doesn't lend to rational discussion, but instead seeks to provoke another emotional response.
But, I would be interested in discussing the idea with you. The idea of a 'death merchant', i.e. one who would profit over someone's death, seems illogical, since there's much less money to be made off of the dead than the living.
(On a related note, I work in what you could call a 'death industry', but we don't profit off of the dead. In fact, we lose billions of dollars each and every year.)