Roping

Roping, or Ropemaxxing, is the incelospherian term for suicide. It is sometimes referred to by incels as FOOS, an initialism of "Falling On One's Sword". Roping is especially prominent among the nymphocel and truecel subsets of the incel community.

Any event that edges you closer to rope-related thoughts is called ropefuel.

Many involuntary celibates are supporters of the legalization of euthanasia (= deliberate death to avoid suffering).

Contributing factors

• Being born male.

• Being a manlet.
• Students that are bullied are around 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than bullies, or generally non-victims.
• Lack of positive reinforcement and love-and-belongingness.

'Presuicidal Syndrome'

The Austrian psychiatrist and suicidologist Erwin Ringel observed people who survived Ropemaxxing in the 1950s, and concluded following pre-ropemaxxing behavioral characteristics of Ropemaxxers before roping:

• Narrowing' (ger: Einengung'): The options in life become increasingly limited until ultimately suicide is the only option left., it can be based solely on the affected person's thoughts and behavior (depression, 'social disorder') and/or in reality (isolation, loneliness, unemployment, loss, illness).
• Aggression: Increased yet inhibited aggression that sooner or later turns against the affected person ('aggression reversal').
• Escape into a fantasy world: The feeling of not being able to cope with reality leads to an escape into unreality building an illusionary world in which thoughts of death and ultimately suicide play an increasingly large role.

The Apokarteron (ἀποκαρτερῶν = 'The Man Who Starves Himself to Death')

Hegesias of Cyrene (Ἡγησίας) was a Cyrenaic philosopher, and argued that eudaimonia (happiness) is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life should be the avoidance of pain and sorrow. Conventional values such as wealth, poverty, freedom, and slavery are all indifferent and produce no more pleasure than pain (many think it was influenced by Buddhist teachings).

Before The Apokarteron was recovered from the Herculaneum in 2017, Cicero claimed that Hegesias wrote a dialogue called ἀποκαρτερῶν (Death by Starvation), which allegedly persuaded so many people that death is more desirable than life that Hegesias was even banned from teaching in Alexandria:

Life is marked by enduring pain and only fleeting joy (assymetry between pain and pleasure): The lion may enjoy the meal, but the gazelle suffers far more. Even love inevitably ends in loss, and aging merely intensifies suffering. The last impression in life is often pain, thus, pain prevails --> Joy fades, pain leaves a more-lasting mark). Since there is no clear divine answer, man must judge for himself - and reason shows that death is the lesser evil. To live is to risk further suffering; to die is to end it with certainty: ' Why hope - a feeble emotion - when one can dictate how much pain one can endure, with near-certainty?'

Thus, suicide is not an emotional impulse for him, but a consciously chosen, philosophical decision - in the spirit of Plato, the most consistent form of lived philosophy since Plato saw philosophy as a preparation for death.

Read the full dialogue here

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See also

• Cope or rope
• Visit Gandy