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‘Disturbing Surge’ in Afghan Female Suicides, Attempted Suicides

www.voanews.com /a/report-disturbing-surge-in-afghan-female-suicides-attempted-suicides/7244132.html

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Their only dignified escape from the conservative nightmare is by their own hand. Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing.
Conservatism is a plague of oppression and death. And the plague is spreading.
- What if they don't have the power to topple their oppressors without foreign intervention?
  It seems that's the case for Iran.
  
  I agree. A revolution would be a violent and bloody one. I worry it would still be ineffective. Conservatism is like cancer. The treatment is deadly for both the disease and its victim.
  
  Foreign infervention is almost always the worst possible option.
  It only makes sense in the case of active mass genocides (think WWII, Cambodia or Serbia). Toppling an oppresive but stable regime through foreign power always ends in destabilisation and even more suffering to the people.
  
  ...wasn't foreign intervention the primary reason why Iran is in this mess in the first place?
- I wish conservatives would conserve any of those things.
Latest: The Taliban have decreed that any woman caught attempting suicide will be put to death.
- Correct me if I'm wrong but don't some JudeoIslamic factions already punish suicide with death?
  
  Yes. Though it's not really as hypocritical as it seems at first glance.
  Assume you view suicide as being punished with eternal torment.
  Someone wants to kill themselves, but, if you kill them instead it isn't a mortal sin.
  From your moral framework the execution is now a mercy. They no longer suffer, in this life or the next.
  Ya know, if you believe in sky daddies and whatnot.
  
  Suicide, really. That's the last thing you should try. You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times, they'd have hung you for it.
  -- Peter Cook, Bedazzled (1968)
- Task failed successfully?
- Good reddit humor.
They should kill the men in their lives first
- I'm sure some have tried, and succeeded, and I'm sure some have tried and failed.
  I'm betting what follows for both situations is making these women take their lives first instead.
  
  What follows is death anyway, might as well make a bit of difference in the process
“females made up more than three-quarter of recorded suicide deaths and treated survivors”
Sounds like women are basically enslaved. I can understand that some slaves decide that death is better.
Fun place to live. /s
- I wonder if they would've preferred the US to stay longer.
Disturbing yes but not entirely surprising. I hope the Taliban get their just dues for what their doing to women soon.
- They won't.
- By who?
  
  The army that folded in two days after 20 years of time wasted trying to make a horse drink.
- Hope unfortunately doesn't mean anything in the face of abuse.
  You either have power, or you don't.
  
  Yeah. That’s sad. I hope there will be changes. But you’re correct. It’s a sad reality
Absolutely tragic, but I probably would do the same were I forced to live the life they're forced to with no hope of escape.
Soon it'll be
- it kinda already is, look up bacha bazi
This was 100% predictable
Gee, I wonder why... is it because they're treated like property instead of people?
They should focus on leaving the country.
- They are being blocked at the border. The Taliban won't let them leave. The ones who got out and participated in interviews (ie the ones we hear about) talk about how their families back home are being harassed, hiding.
  
  Are you shitting me? Damn. I didn't know it was that bad.
- Yes because that's the easiest solution for people enduring violent oppression.
  "jUsT lEaVe!!11!"
  Yep it's that simple. Forget your lives forget your families forget making where you live a better place JUST LEAVE! 🤓
  
  No. I never said anything about anything being easy, lol.
  Do you always argue with your own made up arguments?
- They should focus on leaving the country.
  Getting caught trying means lengthy torture, ending either in death or crippling injuries.
  And, because women's movements and activities are already horribly controlled, even attempting to run is almost impossible. Getting caught is pretty much guaranteed before they get anywhere near a border.

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