I think, saulgoldie, that it should be clear enough in context, and on the basis of many, many past posts I've made on this forum, that I was not seriously or literally encouraging you to do any harm to yourself at all, but I was making a satirical point about the uselessness of totally negative thinking about the human race. I assumed you were conscious enough of both me and yourself to read between the lines and get that.

I would definitely not literally suggest to anyone that they should kill themselves. As you have indicated, it's not right to do that.

I think ALL human beings are very valuable, and that applies to each one of us. It naturally applies to you to. I was making a strong suggestion to you not to devalue yourself and others in the way that you appeared to be doing in that post to which I first responded.

I can't stop you from interpreting my post in the worst way possible, but I can assure you that I did not intend it in that way. And that's my word. You have a choice now to assume I'm a liar...or to believe what I have just said. That's up to you.