There's a lot of losers on Lemmy. They talk tough but they're full of shit. Sorry to hear you have to put up with that

Don't like being told how to fix something? Don't bitch about it in a public forum

They're telling you how to help yourself and other disabled people, not asking you to do something for able-bodied people, but go off on assumptions

Eh, I've been in your position.

If I still lived there and was still in death trajectory, I'd do it. Not for all the dumdums who should also be doing it (or the idiots who dont deserve it), but to make the world a better place (or at least try) instead of leaving it in the same shit it's in, including for anyone you love, if there's any.

I think that, maybe if you were even closer to death (as in actually terminal), you might (because not everyone has the same mindset) see the point, because people who are going to die anyway have something everyone else doesn't - freedom from consequences. Freedom of choice with societal constraints, because what can any society impose on someone already destined to meet an end soon? They can try, but what is the ultimate deterrent for most humans is non existent for people who are/were in our place.

Sure, you could call it abelist. I call it opportunist. Glass half full kinda thing. Other people, doing what we could do, have the potential to face something much worse than death in a fascist regime. Torture comes to mind.

Someone like me who had kidney failure and did dialysis though? Assuming they want to capture me to torture me, I just gotta take some potassium supplements right after pulling off what I want to and my heart goes weh.

Don't pat yourself in the back too much either - even if me or you did go through with such an act, we wouldn't really be a hero or brave or anything either. We'd be just as much of a coward, in a way, as the "abelists", in that something was only done once we basically had little to lose. If deciding that, it's only because there's already an exit anyway.

You can of course just do nothing like everyone else. Or go do more dangerous things like skydiving or giving a monkey a shower and have some fun. Certain death assured expeditiously gives freedom like no other. You have the right to be selfish with that choice just as those more likely to live longer do everyday.

But you still carry hope because you still have a good chance, that's why it makes you angry. You still have something holding you back. People who still have hope are not the same as the hopeless, nor even the same as people who lost all hope momentarily.

And that is something those in power forget too.

While I agree with the sentiment, why are you posting this on a shitpost community?

Who is saying this to you

It's a stupid argument, on top of being insensitive. Luigi isn't even a great example-- sure he had a back problem but he also had cash and knowledge on how to even do something. Plus, it's not like some armchair vigilante told him to go out and murder someone. And it's hard to say it's even made a difference.

You just worry about you, and best wishes. Cancers a bitch.

My more immediate thought is that most people couldn't even get within 100 miles, and this says nothing of training/planning etc. "why doesn't somebody do something" is probably just wish fulfillment by others who feel powerless to do anything about it.

Fuck, I am so sorry people are saying that to you. I can see myself saying it to a close friend as a gallows humor joke, but not with a stranger.

Hugs to you, my friend. You still being around, you not giving up - that is heroic.

Yeah Lemmy in general is too full of endless jokes about guillotines and Luigi, repeated over and over without a modicum of weight or respect until they become meaningless and slop. Meanwhile not a hint of actual action.

I'm sick of it. It's another redditism that Lemmy can't seem to move past.

Interesting timing. I was considering my own sense of guilt associated with this. I watched and was dwelling on innuendo studios South Bank of the Rubicon video. I was thinking where mine was, when I would act, what that action looked like.

Part of me had the same reasoning, I am disabled and my qol is set on a ever increasingly downward slope. Physio is merely to slow the acceleration of the decent, as such why wouldn't my South Bank be a little closer, action a little more drastic.

I do have a fiancee whom I love dearly, but no kids. My social circle is very close but quite small. My job is for hobby money, it's not a career. All of which screams why wouldn't my South Bank be a little closer, action a little more drastic.

I see JSO keeping corporate sponsored climate disasters in the news. I think who among them had better QOL prospects than I? Why was their bank so much closer, their actions more drastic?

I don't have answers, or I do and I don't like them which is functionally the same. Just a mild sense of guilt which peaks whenever I see someone doing something.

Good luck, hope it gets resolved soon and you don’t have any bad affects on your treatment, this sucks

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