Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id QAA14436 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:05:10 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:19:33 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Is Suicide Contagious? A Case Study in Applied Memetics Message-ID: <20010419151933.B2463@ii01.org> References: <20010419140208.AAA5702@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010419140208.AAA5702@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:01:49AM -0400 From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:01:49AM -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> On 04/19/01 09:13, Vincent Campbell said this-
>
> >My beef
> >is in relation to the mediation part of the issue- that mediated suicide
> >(e.g. press reports, or TV dramatisations) lead to suicides in previously
> >non-suicidal people.
>
> One wonders if non-suicidal people _ever_ commit suicide? It seems
> impossible- it is certainly unlogical semantically.
Ever heard of "the tipping point"? :-)
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