Vice or medication

Illegal drugs like cannabis are a lot of fun and experience. This value is disregarded by legislators whose prejudiced decisions rob the people of the positive aspects of legalisation.

They are seen as a vice instead of being valued for their potential uses. Politicians seem only to see the potential harm but a large part of the present harm is caused by criminalisation.

Bizarrely, criminalisation doesn't extend to this class of drugs - drugs which affect the mind - when used for mental health reasons. Psychiatric research shows many illegal drug experiences can be used to better mental health.

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The establishment of legalised assisted suicide is more important than the legalisation of all psychotropic drugs

Enforcement of social model ideals of diversity and equality demands achievement of libertarian aims. All human types and choices are allowed to exist because the masses have equal free will. Whenever this isn't true is when society isn't evolving properly.

The ruling elite own the power inhibiting the free will of individual human beings. This is a travesty and it happens in the East and West as societies 'develop'. They aren't really developing as they think they are till the elite rulers are mandated as part of some bill of rights or constitution to reach for developing a society for all which disadvantages none.

That's the dream and vision for a first step to...well...just....better.

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The biopsychosocial model of mental health (reprise)

This is what is accepted by most UK mental health orgs. Mental health and illnesses are caused by biological, psychological and social factors.

This is right and wrong but mainly wrong. Mental health as a concept is ludacrous except for the prognosis. There is a wide spectrum of humanity and in a fucked up civilisation/society some types in this natural diversity are disadvantaged and/or unwanted. Based on this idea the only valid (ethical, humane, etc) treatments are social model solutions which aim to create an equal society and personal choice/empowerment. No one is ill; just different.

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Those that died are justified (part 2)

The sense of mandate in the piece below is deliberate. I'm prescribing a way of thinking about suicide statistics as something which needs to changed at source, I.e. stop harming people through action or inaction such that it drives them to think of killing themselves.

The sense that suicidal feelings and action are okay isn't something I conveyed with the same alacrity as the sense of mandate.

I'm making an ultra-libertarian point. Denying legal assisted suicide is the height of dictatorial government which seeks to cover over the cracks in their failed mandate. If people can vote, drive or own a gun they should also be given the right to chose when and how they die. It is a more basic right than the others IMO.

Democracy has a fundamental pillar that people are free. This means when they choose to die they can choose when and how. I would choose today and by beheading.

It feels like people simply don't get what it feels like to want to die but be unable to die, for whatever reason. Cunts.

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Those that died are justified

I've just been listening to Rage against the machine's tune Killing in the name of.

The title comes from the tune. It makes me think "those" are people who kill themselves.

They are justified in what they do. A conscious, sentient being driven to the point where they want to die is indicative that something is wrong and that conscious being is right in their decision to die. 6000 a year in the UK is a fucking alarm bell at full volume going, "what the fuck is wrong with you?!" I don't even know the statistic for how many attempts a year there are and my imagination can't create a suitable metaphor to communicate the severity, urgency, onus and all manner of other descriptors to describe what should be clear to anyone.

Those that kill themselves are driven to it. They shouldn't be but they are. This shouldn't happen to any conscious being. It is wrong.

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I wish I was an albatross flying far, far away from the humans below.

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A little on We

Back when "we" was the text of what I imagined the most ethical website it had one interpretation I'm thinking of now: unity. There are other interpretations but I'm thinking of now.

This is the future. Obviously. If humanity is to succeed through and after when lots of important resources are depleted. Unlike other supply crises this could be catastrophic.

Anyway, the other reason I'm thinking about we and unity is the unifying principle that most if not all human beings would want to work towards the nebulous concept "the greater good", creating the future or other quasi-altrustic, meaningful goal like the guarantee of basic and higher rights.

But the human capability for evil makes the basic tenet invalid and all which stems from the principle. The solution to the problem would be making people adhere to the principle or something else. An uber-religion or something beyond which unites humanity becauses it is something which will happen anyway. Or not.

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