This is starting to get really old really fast. It's as if people are
trying to smear literally
anything they can get their hands on, on Mittens.
How desperate can you get? This must be a new level of internet lawyer-dom.
Suicide is not a bargaining chip people; if you have issues -- and even the slightest intention of doing something about it -- you would be seeking professional help, not ~threatening~ people over the internet (of all mediums
) with suicide.
Now, I know people aren't angry about this because someone claimed to be suicidal; you're angry because Mittens pulled a 'name and shame' out of his hat and essentially said "go find this guy". It is also debatable which party is responsible; is it Mittens, or is it 'The Wis'? This actually isn't really important in the big picture because both are subject to human nature and chaos (if it can be done, some(one) will eventually do it). Hence we can't blame Mittens for talking about it, and we can't blame The Wis for typing it in the first place.
But here's where the victimization element comes into play:
Of the following, who is easier to feel sympathy and/or empathy for?
Goonswarm CEO "
douche bag extraordinaire" The Mittani, or Random-person "
poor sod" The Wis?
Your personal choice is probably going to differ from mine, but I'm personally leaning towards Mittens, if only because The Wis used
suicide as a bargaining chip. That and I don't have a bad opinion of Goonswar- ah; see...
Right there is the real problem. The people making the biggest fuss about this really just don't like Goonswarm or The Mittani regardless (this is a generalization, apply reason). The
real tragedy is that they are
using The Wis as a
straw man (whether they realise it or not is irrelevant); an excuse for attacks on someone whom they don't like.
I could also be wrong and people
genuinely care about and want to defend someone they've never met, talked to, or even cared about before Mittens brought it up. Excuse me if I find that a little hard to believe until someone shows me a documentary about The Wis being a person with actual issues IRL and being unable to deal with them.
If you really care about this person, I challenge you to run a charity to get him professional help and counselling.
Take that as you will; but you should probably just do as the ex-attorney said and
The Mittani wrote:deal with it~
This is a terrible thread, with an even worse topic, inevitably posted by people who just can't let anything slip.
Or maybe it's all a trap taken just a bit too far; nobody knows but Mittens (I'll be waiting for his official statement).
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