Kulturkampf

[Eric Cartman]

I'm over here wondering when we got so collectively wrapped around the axle about preventing suicide in the first place.

It's just such a silly rhetorical football. So much of the culture war revolves around who is doing more to prevent suicides... What's the actual scope of this issue? Is there meaningful population decline due to suicides that I don't know about? Is it a "even one is too many!" thing? If so, why?

Schools are banning phones, for instance, but not because kids are blowing their own brains out during homeroom. The core issue on the social media debate seems to be more about kids growing up--kind of the literal opposite of suicide--as emotional and intellectual retards.