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I agree that in general we all have to be responsible for our own actions and decisions and not blame others but I think that philosophy only applies to those capable of making their own rational decisions. This girl clearly had some mental problems and was very impressionable. If someone who you know is mentally disturbed and incapable of making good/rational decisions is standing on a ledge and you tell them to jump, are you responsible when they do?

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yeah exactly. Sometimes the "choice" that GOT thinks people are making, they arent actually making, because they don't see any other options to choose from. It annoys me when people who are of a different mental state cast their own mental state onto someone else. Sure its obvious to us that she chose to kill herself because we can easily see not doing it, or the girl who goes back to the BF that beats her is choosing to do so, because to us, she obviously doesnt have to. But that doesnt mean they see it as a choice, they are suffering from mental illness or the trauma of extreme abuse, who the [censored] knows whats going on in their brain, its not like she calmly and rationally went "gee this really sucks, I feel humiliated now, guess I better go kill myself". She was purposely driven to the edge, and then reacted. Its a pretty easy to see cause and effect to me.