> But IIRC (it's been a few hours since I've read the thread) your comments put an extreme personal skew on the comments you were taking offense at
I sincerely do not think it is an “extreme personal skew” to reject any perspective which would either casually or gladly leave me dead, nor that there’s any reasonable assessment which would arrive at that conclusion.
”I reject perspectives which render me dead” is a very middle of the road personal skew. It’s a personal skew which would be extreme in absence. It’s the kind of personal skew which alarms people that something is wrong.
If you think it’s “extreme”, because the kind of conversation you want to encourage here is “light”, then you ought to know that the kinds of “light” comments I routinely get here—about medication which means the difference between crippling anxiety that made life not worth living, and about a diagnosis which made changing that accessible to me—those comments don’t just vanish because they get moderated. They wouldn’t just vanish if I didn’t have “show dead” in my settings. I seldom see the moderation until after people have laughingly dismissed anything about my experience, they vanish after my reality has been not just questioned but lightheadedly treated as a butt of a joke.
It isn’t just about “the internet” being “wrong”. Discussions that happen anywhere can lead to people making irreversible decisions. “The internet” isn’t some abstract thing, it’s real human beings interacting as quickly as requests are processed.
My personal experience isn’t unusual. Other people will encounter comments like I’ve received and some of them will be discouraged. Some of the consequences of that will be dead humans who wanted to be alive. Pushing back against that isn’t just personal to me. It’s my way of hoping that other people who experience what I have stay alive.
If that’s “breaking the rules”, fucking ban me because I want no part of it.