Suicide ideation and suicide are two different conditions and the first doesn’t turn into the other. Even if it did, there would be nothing dangerous about thinking that it didn’t. Suicide, i.e the right to take one’s own life, ought to be as much a freedom as the right to live one’s life safe from harm by others. — You seem to have missed that part of my response.
‘Hope’ is a euphemism similar to ‘love’ and ‘wish’ that human beings cannot define but use because they are social animals and have been indoctrinated & or socialised by their culture and their ‘leaders’, (read controllers) to indulge in mirages that allow them to suffer degradation, humiliation, slavery, insult, discrimination, torture, dispossession, poverty, and etc. for long periods without kicking back too hard at those who impose it.
In fact, those false concepts are so well embedded now that even those in the so-called ‘Free World’ will vote for people to represent them who, if one considers their statements, backgrounds, actions, etc. will clearly work *against* not for the interests of those voters. The current misguided millions who voted for and support Trump are an example of this as are the billions of religious who follow insidious human constucts and rule or codes of behaviour that have done more to divide and destroy humanity than any other notion or concept that humanity has invented.
It is not uncommon for people to use the excuse that you give for ignoring or simply accepting the inequity and horror that face the majority of people in our world. To express strong feelings of concern for such people is effectively mocked and one is given such trite advice as, “you must look after yourself or you can’t look after anyone else” or “look on the bright side, not all is bad”.
These sorts of injunctions or encouragements are no more then excuses, as the ‘worship’ of a god or gods is and has been for so many. They are a way to avoid taking responsibility and actually *acting* to make the World better and equitable for all.
Of course there are good people, groups, events, actions and such in the World. I don’t deny it. However that such is the case is not an adequate reason or explanation for why we willingly choose to allow humanity to act as inhumanely, irrationally, and self-destructively as it does.
No, I am not jaded. I am frustrated. I am angry. I am deeply disturbed by the pale non-arguments, excuses, petty campaigns over relatively trivial issues, the dishonesty of governments and businesses and tradesmen and parents and etc. and the everyday abuse by people of one another.
There is no evidence that there is any point to humanity’s existence nor is there any valid reason that there should be. We are all nothing. We come from nothing, (well almost), and go back to nothing. That’s fine and probably fitting. If we feel that we need a point or purpose beyond our innate ‘life-force’, then we could create one and work actively to attain it.
I would suggest that a useful, even admirable, purpose would be to work on overcoming our focus on self and learning to put others first. That in doing so, we should aim for a World without borders that is equitable, sharing and caring and that has no place for hypocrisy, irresponsibility, arrogance and the inordinately crass and stupidly moronic notion of an omnipotent God or gods and of divine right to rule through hereditary monarchy or other supreme position of power.
Non sibi des cunctis is possibly the most concise prescription for how we should live.
Unfortunately, we seem no closer to it than we were 2 or 4 or more thousand years ago. That is reason enough and rationality enough for any human being to choose to opt our and, if they so wish, those who mean well enough and act only out of what they may consider to be kindness, should realise that it is not their place to foist their own underestandings and beliefs on the lives of others. They should butt out.
