PSA

[Samcaesar]

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Saying "If you have an incredibly prolific disease just stay away from the thing that's heavily integrated into our society and is how most people socialize and (should) enjoy themselves" is a bad answer that doesn't work.

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Please never interact with anyone with mental health. As someone who both deals with and studies mental health issues for future professional reasons, the ideal of "Steeling oneself to the horrors that trigger your mental issues" doesn't work and you have a misunderstanding of immersion therapy.

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Telling someone to walk off a broken bone is asking for that bone to set in ugly ways much, much later than it should've >_> We shouldn't be in condoning an environment that would allow that sort of behavior.

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There is a bit of an fallacy of moderation. When one side is saying "Hey folks, please just try to be nicer. Here is also some tips to deal with this issue" and the other side is saying "Nah, just deal with it/Nah, talking nasty shit is just fine." There really isn't an answer besides "Stop saying nasty shit. This is a game, they didn't just smack you in the face." People ought to mature and making excuses for the behavior, whether that be "It just happens" or "Nah, it's okay that it does happen" and not "It's your fault for getting upset by this."

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Lie or not, let's not kid ourselves this stuff happens all the time in any sort of content in online communities and it needs to stop

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I'm sorry but the fault lies on the person who said the thing like a 13 year old, as chances are they ought to act their age (That is to say, there is never an appropriate age to tell someone to kill themselves) and not tell people to kill themselves.
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To the OP, thank you, you've made a very good PSA and initial post. The call for less toxic language in the FFXIV community (Or online really) is very reasonable and most people ought to respect that idea. Whether or not the actual incident occurred isn't important because it happens all the damn time, PvP, PvE, or just through minor interactions. This thread is filled with horrific misunderstandings of mental illness and or just blatant wrong and gross behavior towards people with mental health.

Also as a side note, lmao'ing at mirta for believing and saying right wing nationalist propaganda in response to Culfinrandir making a somewhat reasonable comparison to recent racism (particularly black focused racism) committed by the police, antisemitism in the south, and a homophobic mass murderer. Culfinrandir you're a pretty cool dude.