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Originally Posted by RealJames
Shintoism and Buddhism, either directly or indirectly by some odd way of shaping a minor part of modern Japanese culture, have no relation to suicide.
The closest you'll get to having a point in that argument is to say that those religions didn't have enough of an impact to decrease the number of suicides...
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Thanks for you constructive criticism RealJames
That's a good alternative way of looking at it. Its like for example:
A culture that refuses to fight wars, will be destroyed when war comes.
Their view of war ultimately left them unprepared for when war finally came.
I gave an example of "satisfying preconditions" earlier.
A person's view on life and death are "preconditions" before suicide
(Before the Holocaust there was a "necessary precondition" of certain lives not being valuable, for example)
So what i was saying is not
just focusing on just Buddhism and Shintoism, alone, but on everything that necessitates the environment of a high suicide rate, and how it got that way.
Regardless no one can say that Buddhism and Shintoism, had no effect on whatsoever on their view of life and death throughout all of their entire history.
I admit i'm at fault in my presentation of my thoughts. I shouldn't have just posited a conclusion, that entails a lengthy explanation, so simplistically.