http://www.avclub.com/content/node/45150 Interview with Dan Savage.
Delicious tags: interview article gay sex humorYou joke about people getting your advice and then killing themselves, but do you have any actual anxiety about the effect your column may have on people?
No. I feel like I’m a compassionate guy, but I also feel if somebody’s grip on life or sanity is so tenuous that a joke in an advice column that usually is nothing but jokes pushes them over the edge, then if not me, it would have been a leaf blowing past them that did it, or something else. You almost have to feel that way, doing this. And also, I’m not a big anti-suicide guy. I don’t regard suicide necessarily as this huge unspeakable act of selfishness or tragedy. Some people take themselves out for completely legit reasons. Hopefully they’ll get help, hopefully they’ll think about it, but if they want to check out, I feel like they have a right to do that.
