Ertai I think your grasp of English is too limited to really understand what I wrote (no offense of course). So let me explain again
1. What I was doing was QUOTING or rather summarising the little poem on the front page of Werther, i.e. I am NOT saying anything aboutsuicidal people being morons, just explaining what the poem said.
2. It is well known that a lot of susceptible adolescents are enormously influenced by famous people killing themselves. Think of what happened when Kurt Cobain from Nirvana killed himself: half the fans tried to -or at least wanted to or talked about- follow his example (and believe me - I was one of them (not with regard to the suicide, but I was a fan)). The same sort of mass hysteria happened when Die Leiden des jungen Werther was published. As a comment and a warning to THOSE young people who got carried away by it, the next edition had those lines printed on the front page. All I'm saying is: by the time they grow up, most people realise that their adolescence problems turned out allright and they realise that suicide would have been slightly silly in their cases (please no reactions about people who DO have serious problems in this period of their lives and are not merely fawning over some idol, believe me, I know that they do exist...I know that all too well....)
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