The Leben

This site has, off the top of my head, four main trolls. A few more exist but are less active. Two of them belong to a group known for racism One of them is in a eugenics backing group that exists just to counter the before mentioned two The other one is an Antitheist that has probably the lowest elo I have ever seen and has lost more than ten debates. Now, while admitting that two of the groups on here are inherently trolling, there are still many more that range from directly trying to help the website like my own, to just trying to have some fun like that one rap group. I would agree that if only one group existed on this site, as it was in the beginning, especially if as trollish, it would be a problem and drive people from the site. But that is not the case so instead we get a villain or two that other groups can use to draw attention to the site at large and competition rather than the racism, sexism and ableism of the scrape goat group. I'm not mentioning names to avoid a potential conduct deduction. Anyway you have every right to be on this site, and this site isn't perfect, it's okay to point that out. Its social media hasn’t even been updated in years and I wonder if the current company that owns this, juggle LLC, has died off. That goes into my first argument, because this website is seemingly dying off, it needs something to come about to give it a new spark. That is where groups come in. It gives people something to defend, and to ally themselves with. People want to see how the groups develop. Without them, simply put, people have less fun. As much as I dislike the idea of a political party, they are an example of this mindset working. Do you think that people would be as invested in politics if they didn't have a team to root for? It becomes a game about which group is better, rather than simple ideas, and a story. Now, DDO has the advantage of being a site about challenging views and supporting them rather than real life where they are rarely challenged, which avoids some of the issues that go with that loyalty. True you don't know who is in your group, but that goes for everything on the internet. You just have to be careful in general, and the groups have no need to go beyond the one site. This site has many goals, I and many others use it for perfecting the art of arguing. Practice makes perfect.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Depression isn't always treatable. In cases of Treatment-resistant depression the person may never recover. Even when they can recover from depression, it can require years of trial and error in medicine and other treatments to manage depression. I would argue that depression is the only thing in the world that can actually make you suffer. Even cancers like Glioblastoma have a 4% survival rate for elderly people (To live at least five years after). That may not seem like a lot, but that is one kid per normal school classroom. It adds up. No one can truly know that someone will die of something, just that we all will die at all. https://www.cancer.org... You don't know if the teenager has a whole life to live. People die a lot, that same teenager could recover just to be hit by a truck or suffer a sudden deathly stroke. Death is something everyone will reach. An average of 16,375 teenagers die a year in the us. But yet the inevitability of death should never be an argument to end it even sooner. Even a few moments count. My great grandmother has Alzheimer’s, she is still happy in life even though she couldn't even remember that my brother exists and thought my grandmother was to different people. I'm sorry for your loss, but in many cases it isn't the ailment that someone finds unbearable but rather the sudden change. I strongly believe that with support anyone can enjoy every moment left, with no need to die sooner than needed. Actually I have handled dying animals many times, I have never once even considered killing one, but I have stayed up the entire night to look over them and keep them comfortable the best I can and have stood with them as they died and have seen the last breath. Every moment is so important in that, if you kill them that is less time they have to enjoy life and simply be alive. Also, as someone that plans to adopt and foster disabled children, no matter how disabled including terminally ill children, I am aware I will go through this with my own children as well. My wish for them is to treasure every moment because their life will be so short that every second is important. I assure you I won’t kill my children, no matter their pain. I want them to know that the pain doesn't define their life.