'Course, Kat, your remarks lead me to reflect that if one were to decide rationally to blow out one's brains one would do it sitting inside a thirty-gallon trashbag, or perhaps just walk over to the dump and do it there. It would make much more sense. But, OTH, people desparate enough to wipe out a whole identitiy aren't usually in condition to weigh consequences clearly. It's like solving a credit problem by burning your card rather than by learning how to use it intelligently -- a drastic, extreme solution by its nature admits little reasoning, and often addresses the wrong problem altogether!

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