I am genuinely hoping they start doing this and there's an easy enough way for me to make myself a target. I have U.S. citizenship and I do not want it, but I don't have the money to jump through all their hoops to renounce it.
I mean, we're really just talking about the diathesis-stress model, with chatbots being the requisite stressor in this case. It's a new stressor, but the idea that some people are simply more vulnerable to/more at risk from certain stressors is not new.
Talking about how she was super proud of her furniture and "the way the light came in through the windows" while Palestinians just want to eat something safe and nutritious before they literally die of starvation.
And some people consider that killing a Palestinian isn't murder because only Israelis are living humans to begin with. I don't care what those people think and have no interest in discussing them as if their perspective means anything.
It's a less problematic solution than "assisted suicide" where professionals are necessarily allowed to suggest it to people and generally facilitate it because it's part of their job. I'd say encouraging suicide in any way should be illegal, if someone dies from a DIY kit someone else bought then it should be treated and charged as murder, but if someone independently decides to die and acquires the method themselves then that's totally within their rights to do.
You being trans, presumably would not appreciate being told that you shouldn’t be allowed to choose to have a gender reassignment because society thinks being trans is a mental illness and wants to save you from yourself. Yet that’s exactly what you’re supporting by being against assisted suicide.
No, I'm actually super against the medicalisation of trans stuff and think blockers and E, T, etc. should all be available OTC at pharmacies. I'd make a similar argument about barbiturates and DNRs if I was in the mood to talk about an actual right to end one's own life, because giving authority figures some say in the matter is just going to make things worse in exciting new ways.
Look, I get it. I have starved (am doing so now, in fact) and have attempted suicide and been in ICU multiple times, sometimes for weeks.
But putting authority figures (be they NHS doctors or anyone else) in charge of judging who deserves to live and who deserves to die just fast tracks genocide, with "consent" becoming an outcome that is forcibly attained. As a trans woman, I have had multiple psychiatrists tell me to kill myself, and repeatedly lie to other authorities to get permission to forcibly drug me with drugs that left me unable to feed or clothe myself, and those are the exact same people who would be in charge of deciding to kill me if medical authorities were ever given permission to kill off people for being disabled, mentally ill, or whatever else.
Giving the same people who decide my quality of life the power to then decide if I should die outright because my quality of life is too low (when they made it that low intentionally) is not freedom, it is truly incredible and systematic abuse.
Would you feel the same if Israel set up camps where they offered a free bullet in the head to any Palestinian who wanted one? "It's better than continuing the siege and leaving people to starve"?
What are your outcome measures for therapy, personally?