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Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight (www.dexerto.com)
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Flight instructor: "Do your best, lol."

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[–] 47 points 3 months ago (6 children)

This is the hill we're choosing? Really?

It's a shitty thing to do to someone else, full stop.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I mean he's right about the suicide thing. Its the difference between traumatizing someone and taking them with you. Both are terrible, sure, no one is denying that. But one of these involves killing (or at least attempting to) somebody. So yes, murder is worse than giving someone PTSD.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    People in the cars in car accidents can die too y'know. Plus the driver doesn't necessarily know the person is committing suicide, making them think they're a murderer. The word that was used to compare the two was "similar", I truly don't see how anyone could argue they're dissimilar. No one said they were exactly equal.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Yes both are shitty things. But still, I would much rather be:

    Traumatized for life vs. Traumatized for life + potentially die

    The train conductor is much more likely to walk another day to see their family again. Even if they are really fucking traumatized. Its doing a suicide traumatizing someone vs traumatizing someone and potentially taking them with me to death

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    All they said was that they're similar, which they are. Out of all the experiences you could possibly have at any point in space and time in the entire universe, these two are actually very fucking similar.

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