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Re:A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a s... by hitekker on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @09:57AM (#10499906)
I don't believe "rational" should be conflated with "ideal." Some people have pain inflicted upon them for longer and harder than their tolerance for pain allows. It is not irrational for those poor souls, if all other possible options have been exhausted, to consider and then execute suicide.

In my mind, the people who chose to jump out of windows of the Twin Towers, instead of being engulfed by rapidly encroaching flames, made the only rational choice available at the time.

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Re:A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a s... by ParadigmBlender on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:44AM (#10500707)
> ...chose to jump out of windows of the Twin Towers, instead of being engulfed by rapidly encroaching flames...

This stopped me in my tracks. Still not sure what I would have done but I would think I would try to find a way down. Now if I knew there was no way out...

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