deco said:
If someones wants to pull the trigger, why encourage him? Just because he has a free choice? Where's the honor in that.
Short answer.
My amusement.
Longer answer.
It's the Internet chat board.
We're a bunch of strangers who don't matter in each others lives.
Typically, I find people come for advice on how to do stuff or on a particular topic. Some people give serious answers. Others don't. At the end of the day, the person has to decide for themselves what the right thing to do is regardless of what "we" say because they're the ones who have to live with the consequences.
So, as the advice giver, you can take two paths. One is to always give serious advice. Sometimes this will work. Other times, it won't. This may result in the advice receiver choosing the other path and then bitches when it doesn't work out.
The other option is to give crazy advice. It's like that Chex commercial. Let's feed it Mikey and see if he'll *actually* eats it.
Myself, I'm not a swinger. Some people are. So, it MUST work for some people. I can't see how, but if it does work for some and the person is interested in it; then I give the advice that he should try it because he's already thinking down that path anyways and only wants some sort of vindication (sp).
The act occurs and two things can happen. One, he finds the happiness that he's looking for. I feel good because he proclaims on how *great* it is. Two, he doesn't find happiness and find despair instead. I am amused in the same way I am sometimes when I read the Darwin Awards. Then I give a little cry for the death of common sense. Either way, I'm ahead.