Fully agreed: conformity has made the Internet far less freewheeling, vibrant, and fun; we need more individuality. "He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties." -- J.S. Mill
That's a wonderful quote! Normiefication, social media, and censorship/cancel "culture" have by-large destroyed the individuality and creativity of the old Internet. We still have the old Web 1.0 web but it's as if our country is under hostile occupation by NPC hordes...
I've seen at least one person complain that Neocities doesn't have a "website-builder", and I'm quite thankful that it doesn't. The fact that people have to learn how to create their own website in order to participate does wonders to safeguard us from the lazy, simple-minded enemy swarms.
I commend you for using the old YouTube layout for KamiTube. You could have just as easily copied the current-day design for the page, but you are clearly a man of taste, and selected the superior 2006 layout. Well done!
Thank you very much, lolwut! I definitely, like you, find the old YouTube design to be far preferable to the modern one. Considering KamiTube was shown in-series as broadcasting on a CRT TV, I thought it'd make sense to use the old layout either way though.
I find it astonishing that voluntary euthanasia to relieve incurable illness and suffering is even an issue in liberal Western countries, where the concept of self-ownership is widely presumed. If suicide is legal (as it is in many Western countries), then for what reason should voluntary euthanasia be illegal? In both cases the person has by their own free will chosen to die.
Also, regarding the sixth-to-last paragraph ("Some argue that everyone owes a debt to society..."): I was not even aware up till now that this was an "argument" against suicide; it should be instantly rejected, for it reeks of collectivist thinking.
Thank you very much for your open-minded comments. I agree with you entirely. I saw the "debt to society" argument when I was researching why suicide is universally considered wrong, and was astonished that a supposedly free-thinking creature could actually come up with such thoughts.
I am aware, but am nonetheless glad that you brought that up. It just goes to show how arbitrary these associations are, in spite of how seriously many people take them.
Just a little bit of interior decorating. That is all.