I take the story personally and thats probably unhealthy… Shocking amount of suicide and denial of that suicide in my personal life. Anyway, I couldn’t get that data together specifically the way you wanted. Closest I could gather was a listing of public suicides over a ten year span 2013-2023.On average around 45,000 people commit suicide a year, about 12,000 of that by hanging. Public is where the numbers got more difficult but there is some info out there, I’ll post it below. Numbers below represent a single year based on averages from the 10 year span. So its not common but also nowhere near close to unheard of. I had an AI try to compile specifically hanging public suicides and it said between 10-15% of hanging suicides happen in public. I can include the prompts I used to get you there if you dont trust me. Sources it used were the CDC, National Center for Health Statistics and the National Violent Death Reporting System.

Motor vehicle — 2,363.

Natural area — 1,895.

Street or highway — 1,209.

Hotel or motel — 1,032.

Park/playground/sports/athletic area — 719.

Parking lot / public garage / public transport — 700.

Jail or prison — 654.

Commercial / retail area — 475.

Bridge — 323.

Railroad tracks — 285.

Hospital / medical facility — 178.

Yeah, I pointed out the currently available evidence. Also disproved the legitimacy of a parallel situation. The misinformation got significantly more upvotes as the factual information and article I linked. People want this to be a hate crime and no amount of proof will dissuade them from believing it is.

Solid

That’s close to how I feel.

Understood.

If you genuinely believe its child abuse, do you think legislation should be created to outlaw it?

That’s reasonable. Enemy of my enemy and all that jazz.

That’s honest

That’s fair. You’re morally and intellectually superior but you don’t HATE anyone. That’s been the general consensus I’ve seen so far.

That’s consistent with all the other comments you’ve left.

I value yours, I dont really care what you think of mine lol.

Just to be clear, I’m an agnostic (likely atheist) liberal democrat, mechanical engineer and consider myself a pragmatic person. I’m trying to understand opinions and consider how they clash with my personal experiences in life so far. I don’t necessarily think religious people are inherently bad or good. Do you have a specific stance on why someone would choose to engage with a religion? Based on other comments, it seems like you think religious people just want a reason to feel superior to others. Would you say thats accurate?

That’s an interesting point of view.

I’m not a religious person. I had a long argument with a friend about the subject. I also spend a bit too much time reading reddit and lemmy comments. You can choose to think the question is in bad faith but I’m just trying to have a discussion and understand how people think on the subject.

I don’t think thats the roast you want it to be.

Wrote the question based on some comments I’d seen on lemmy, reddit and conversations with friends. If you don’t think many people believe hating someone based on their religion is morally correct, you should read some of the comments in this thread. It started with a long conversation with a close friend of mine. He considers himself an atheist and views religion and religious people as the root of most major evils in the world. I think its a reasonable premise based on my lived experience. Just curious what other people think.

Your response just comes off the same way a guy might say something like “Sure I don’t HATE gay/racial group/ethnic group people, I just dont want them to be around me” (a common sentiment I’d hear growing up) I recognize the distinction between choice you made though. I just can’t quite seem to grasp why you may think people make that choice.

If you consider someone’s religion an opinion I don’t think you’ve ever had a meaningful conversation with a religious person. Which is fine, just gonna lead to a fairly narrow view of the world.

That’s the part that I find interesting though.

Bigotry specifically includes the hate for someone based on religion. At least based on the dictionary’s definition.