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All I can say is that I'm sorry to know you think that way.
And I didn't said that religion or will power can solve every problem.
Maybe, some problems have no solution, but I think in that case, the person should try to live with that problem, trying to be happy no matter what difficulties she have.
Yeah, its impossible to make the world and everybody's lives perfect. But who said it needs to be perfect to be enjoyable? Nothing or nobody is perfect.
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Who said life was even tolerable for him? He was suffering immensely.
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Yeah, I agree that that thing is horrible but I don't think those several suicides was the only way to make people understand how big that problem is.
Perhaps that was the fastest way possible to achieve that. But it wasn't the only.
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Those doctors were as stubborn as ****. To much pride and reputation on the line that they had subconsiously dismiss and block out all evidence of negativity. The doctors livelyhoods were on the line. They has kids to feed, college tuitions to pay.
You see this type of stubborness in every scientific and medical field. Its a human flaw. They don't want to accept they are this wrong and have harmed others, its too much to take. Its so much easier to live in denial.
If the victims continued to struggle with living who knows how much success the doctors would claim. The treatment might have spread outside of northamerica and hundreds of others might have had their lives ruined because of the treatment.
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But that doctor is a monster. I understand that those lives was seriously damaged and it's easier to say than to do (and it's even easier because it wasn't with us) but the best they can do is to try to find a way to enjoy their lives after what happened. It's difficult, I know, but it's the only thing they can do now to help themselves.
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What David Reimer and others who commited suicide did was the ultimate sacrifice. His life was already in the sh!tter, he had been campaigning against infant gender reassignment for years and years with limited success. What he did was the most powerful and impacting possible statement of how ruinous it was.
It was the only thing that would get through the doctors think skulls and stop them from twisting their perception of these peoples lives post treatment into something positive.
Of course you should never promote suicide this and try to prevent it, but you have to understand what they are going though and in some circumstances why they did it.
Last edited by PCXL-Fan; August 28th, 2008 at 08:32.