chrisbaker98

Pronounced "foo-chee-BOW"

> something nearly unheard of even after all these years

It's not "nearly" unheard of, it's completely unheard of apart from in Pelé's case. He remains the only player ever to have won three world cups.

How often does that happen though? I'm straight and I don't recall ever being asked about my family or love life in a job interview. Not that I'd keep it secret if asked, but why the hell would they be asking?

I'm far more experienced with React function components than with class components, so I'm curious, what are some of the problems with class components and how did hooks solve them?

Am I the only one who had no idea until now that "peloton" is an existing dictionary word and not just a brand name?

Ideally we'd wait until we have evidence of who did it and what their motivations are, rather than just jumping to whichever conclusion fits our existing biases.

In the UK, if you want to kill yourself by overdosing on paracetamol, then you're forced to visit several different shops (because you can't buy more than two packets at once) then spend a long time tediously popping each pill individually out of the blister pack before you can swallow them all. (The pills don't come in bottles because bottles make it too easy to quickly pour a fatal overdose of pills into your mouth).

These measures won't stop a truly determined person, but they stop a lot of people. It's well understood that erecting even a minor inconvenience in front of a suicidal person can be enough to keep them alive. Popping all your paracetamol out of the packaging takes enough time to give you a chance to reconsider the whole thing.

By forcing someone to do something, we prevent them from doing something else.

It's accessible in that you don't need to be terminally ill or get your doctor's permission. If you want Dignitas to kill you, they will.

On the other hand, I have a loved one who struggled with suicidal thoughts for years and told me that if they'd lived somewhere like Switzerland where euthanasia is easily accessible, they would almost certainly have used it. Now they're no longer suicidal and are very happy that they're still alive (as am I!)

That's the kind of personal experience that makes me feel much less in favour of legalisation.

> I’d rather there be some cases of coercion than people who want to die being denied the chance.

No-one is "denied the chance" to die if they wait long enough and I'd much rather let a few more people die natural deaths if the alternative is coercing people into suicide.

> Anyone who would consciously sacrifice another human being for something inanimate like "infrastructure" is sick in the head

You need to read more history.

I'm glad someone else shared this.

I used to be very much in favour of legalised euthanasia but I'm a lot less certain after reading about what it's actually looking like in practice in Canada - where the results seem horrifying.

Your death affects other people.