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gotylocks

Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.

3rabbit

daughter (non-practicing)

3rabbit

sister (deadbeat)

muttsandmustelidae

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

unteriors

Rankin Street, Branchland, West Virginia.

#Geen

homeofhousechickens

He was soooo fucking mad he peed all over me lol he lives under the air conditioning unit.

#Frog Friday

kittyit

link / archive

marbleguard

I’m going to say something that might sound crazy. Suicide and suicide attempts are sort of a societal alarm bell that says “something is very wrong with the environment this individual was in.” A living being choosing to take themselves out of existence is the most extreme act of distress there is. The state stepping in to silence this alarm bell by funneling suicidal people into a state sanctioned euthanasia program, normalizing this act through a socially accepted bureaucratic system, is not a good thing. It goes hand in hand with the state’s interest in maintaining the status quo at the expense of the population and the psychiatric industry’s interest in individualizing societal problems to extract profit and aid the existing system. It’s saying “there are no complaints here, just people with sick brains, carry on.”

pisceanpharies

It's not just or even always something wrong with ones personal environment. Something is wrong with the entire world. Actually a lot is wrong. And it's only getting worse. So forcing people who can't stand it here to stay is morally wrong. People shouldn't be forced to live in pain. They should be given the option to end it with dignity. In Canada, we have MAiD for this, though it isn't for the mentally ill (yet). Next year they will reassess it and possibly make it accessible for people with mental illnesses too.

marbleguard

No one is forcing anyone to "stay". The argument is that the government shouldn't be the arbitrator of who "can't be helped" and needs to be euthanized by the state, because we should not trust the government to make that call. Especially because there are a giant pile of ulterior motives a government may have for euthanizing people.

Also, when I said "environment" I intended it to mean something as small as someone's family environment or as broad as an entire societal system. If everyone who is horribly upset at the state of the world is given by the government a ticket to kill themselves, who does that benefit as a whole? The people who are dissatisfied with the world and want change, or the system that would prefer the status quo be maintained and any complainers catch the bus?