Complaint Arbitrary admins
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(03-12-2022, 11:29 AM)TheSlizz Wrote: Im am here to address the dismisal of a legitimate question and the arbitrary wims of this admin. As well as the additional dismissal of my concerns over suicide in the discord, when another player said "Suicide is a human right" Which to be blunt, is the most insane thing I ever heard. I have a friend who killed himself and I was VERY upset by that remark. Instead adressing the issue properly, the admin in question shut me down without another word. 

I hope this doesn't count as peanut gallerying, since I wanted to address this particular topic.

The 'suicide is a right' thing comes from the AI Laws page. It exists to prevent people from holding themselves hostage to get what they want from the AI under Law 1.
As a sanity check, it's also rather an important thing to keep in mind outside of AI.

Suicide is a rather vital game mechanic for many other reasons too, and cannot be reasonably removed. You sometimes need to do it to get 'unstuck' from when you are trapped. Or when people do things like abandon you anaesthetized in surgery. Or you're stuck N2O'd somewhere. Or you need to go and can't get to cryo. Or you need it to explore the bounds of science as a living gold stature. Or just for whatever other reason.

As someone who has been hospitalized for it several times myself, I do understand that suicide can be a very raw topic. But ultimately, this is a game where life on the frontier is incredibly cheap, and often temporary. Ten percent crew attrition is an especially quiet and safe shift. From a meta perspective, medbay does not sign up for spending the shift watching someone on suicide watch, and trying to provide amateur psychological roleplay that not even real trained psychologists often manage in real life. So, yeah, if you kill yourself, you very much risk your obvious desire being fulfilled, and people will let you die. And they will probably say it's your right, because that is what the wiki implies in the lore. So that, again, someone can't hold themselves hostage out of spite and crash everyone's rounds.

It has to be that way, for the sake of the fact that this is a game we all play to have fun.


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Arbitrary admins - by TheSlizz - 03-12-2022, 11:29 AM
RE: Arbitrary admins - by jan.antilles - 03-12-2022, 12:06 PM
RE: Arbitrary admins - by TheSlizz - 03-15-2022, 08:02 AM
RE: Arbitrary admins - by Love - 03-12-2022, 07:45 PM
RE: Arbitrary admins - by UrsulaMejor - 03-15-2022, 03:33 PM

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