Dishonest campaigns in Australia
mercredi 7 août 2013 à 14:00Dishonest campaigns oppose wind and solar electricity plants in Australia.
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Dishonest campaigns oppose wind and solar electricity plants in Australia.
Peru's government has apparently discharged ministers that supported indigenous people's opposition to oil mining on their land.
US political parties offer TV networks "partnerships" of a sort that is essentially corrupting.
A fair number of teenagers use ask.fm to invite people to insult them. A few of them eventually kill themselves.
It seems to me that the site provided them with a way to nerve themselves to suicide, or (only slightly different) stimulated a latent fatal flaw. In other words, the site wasn't the cause of the problem; the problem came first.
To ban the site would be futile, and unfair to millions of others. Small tweaks in the site might reduce the frequency of making people feel miserable, but I doubt it, simply because that possibility always exists when people interact and want to be popular.
If we understood the reason why teenagers feel inclined to do this, maybe we could see a way to turn them away from death. My uneducated guess is that it will be something about their family life.