I'm dead sorry, Matt, but the votes the responses to you have gotten, on the whole, demonstrate why this place has gone down the toilet (in terms of comments - the front page links are still pretty good!).
It seems that criticizing you and calling you names is worthy of karma and that a reasonably thought out point is not. I'd rethink about where you spend so much of your time in future - I certainly don't post as much as I used to. I tend to vote you up though, because even if I don't agree with you, you at least put your case properly, unlike some of the name calling, emotionally wrought folks on here lately.
I'm not willing to go quite that far. I think at the base it's because most of the people here are decent and want to see a suicide prevented. I just don't think they understood my argument, which is that there are so many tragedies out there that if we let that sort of thing go on here, it would eventually monopolize the site. I think it's really an all or nothing (or maybe nothing except for a few rare exceptions) decision in the long run.
It seems that criticizing you and calling you names is worthy of karma and that a reasonably thought out point is not. I'd rethink about where you spend so much of your time in future - I certainly don't post as much as I used to. I tend to vote you up though, because even if I don't agree with you, you at least put your case properly, unlike some of the name calling, emotionally wrought folks on here lately.