Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that…

Emile Durkheim
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it. ✨ Suicide: A Study in Sociology bk. 3, ch. 3 (1897) (translation by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson)
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