re: "Why Are Young Americans Killing Themselves? (The New York Times, January 6, 2020)
Perhaps part of the problem is looking for quick, easy solutions, such as taking a pill or seeing a shrink.
Maybe it would help more to offer serious philosophy courses (not healthy living or other new age pap) in schools to at least provide some tools for the issues that occur as a natural part of live these last few centuries.
And perhaps we also need to have a wider public discussion about what could make life worth living, or not. The recently reignited abortion debate, for example, with its warped notions about being human, being a person and being valuable before and after birth likely ties in here.
Perhaps depression comes when the young see all too clearly the moral hypocrisy founded on solid unreason and fake concern from their elders pretending to be the leaders of society?
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to the The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/opinion/suicide-young-people.html#commentsContainer&permid=104461697:104461697
Donald is merely the obvious symptom of what the US has been evolving to for at least a decade.
ReplyDeleteBefore a cure, a diagnosis might be needed.