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Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt by yetanotherphd on Saturday January 25, 2014 @10:51PM (#7123783)
The downvotes are for your assumption that (1) people don't care about addressing underlying causes of suicide, and (2) people only want to fix the problem because it is inconvenient to them, and not for the sake of the people killing themselves.

It seems that you have extrapolated both these things from the fact that someone has proposed a technical solution to suicide, which is completely illogical. There is strong evidence that removing popular, easy methods of suicide actually reduce suicide rates.

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Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt by undoware on Saturday February 08, 2014 @10:22AM (#7201372)
No, my response is on evaluating the character of people that immediately leap to a technical solution without asking (a) who the solution benefits (apart from some a dodgy mention of an absent, undocumented statistic) (b) whether there is a technical approach to the problem that might be a bit less Soviet than putting up a wall to keep the jumpers in. For example, better funding for health care.
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