self-destruction

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"It is as if the Industry is courting self-destruction." And how.

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Quick take

the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of self-destruction gathered in one view.

noun

the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide"

noun

the act of destroying yourself; "his insistence was pure self-destruction"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for self-destruction.

noun

the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide"

noun

the act of destroying yourself; "his insistence was pure self-destruction"

Example sentences

"It is as if the Industry is courting self-destruction." And how.

Is this some kind of self-destruction mechanism built into their "dna"?

It has no allowance for self-destruction someday. Certainly we can all see the results of this sort of behavior, which is a real thing.

The US will solve the budget problem at the very last second before financial self-destruction, but not one minute earlier.

All I see is self-destruction and it makes me very sad and angry. Edit: I expect downvotes as you can't have rational discussion with the pro-drugs crowd on the Internet.

Since lives are finite, the base case turns out to be total self-destruction. At each time step, each recursive call, sustained hopelessness only begets more hopelessness.

It has no allowance for self-destruction someday. 2.

There is such a thing as responsible, low-level alcohol consumption that doesn't turn into a spiral of addiction and self-destruction. Same with LSD. Not so much with heroin.

But really the glue was we partied well and we did it often, perhaps a vibe of mutually ensured self-destruction. While it produced some of the most exciting moments in my life and most of us acted like we really cared about each other, it just felt forced.

* 'messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct' - but like every system, the self-destruction is not assured since it's impossible to enforce. * 'keeps your messages safe from hacker attacks' - a bold claim.

And given how deeply engrained these problems have become, saying "poor people simply shouldn't reproduce" is tantamount to insisting that entire races suddenly give up on themselves in a sweeping acts of self-destruction. Which, yeah, right.

> I would suggest you shift your efforts to a forum where people are actually starkly discussing hopelessness and self-destruction, rather than just briefly mentioning completely normal moments of weakness, and might even appreciate your help. Honestly?

Posts like this just encourage my opinion about the Merb merge with Rails being a disaster which helped Rails transform from "PHP in Ruby" to something beautiful to work with, while leading to self-destruction of Merb. \nRails gained a lot of traction and is now abandoning any good decision Yehuda and other great developers made.