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Re:The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You by coldtea on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:44AM (#11548214)
>Instead of the answer, however, I get a fluffy human-interest piece that I simply do not care about. [...] How about we stop with crap like this, I don't need to hear a story, just the facts please. I've wasted several minutes on this story and still have no clue what the real reason is.

If you don't care for the lives affected by the phenomenon, then why would you be caring for the reason?

That's something even less important to know if one doesn't care about the effects.

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Re:The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You by Aaargh20318 on Friday April 22, 2016 @08:20AM (#11548547)
> If you don't care for the lives affected by the phenomenon, then why would you be caring for the reason?

I'm interested in the mechanism, not some anecdotes about one or two specific people. I like complicated systems and how they work, this interest me because it could give me additional insight in how the human machine works.

I don't need to be interested traveling to be interested in how a plane stays in the air or how the engine of a car works.

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