And it is also not a chicken. What does that have to do with suicides increasing in the last 25 years after falling for 50.

I don't know, but it sure won't have anything to do with sanitizing fairy tales, which is what we're talking about here.

You should probably read the reply above mine.

Let me quote it for you in case tree based navigation is too difficult:

>For example, the lowest suicide rate in the US in over a century (and ever, as long as records were kept) happened in 2000.

If you'd like more context, which I understand can be difficult to remember after reading two 20 word posts, I'd be happy to provide it.

Your snark is unnecessary, unjustified, and frankly probably breaking this site rules. The original claim was:

>would expect the consequents of mental illness (most obviously suicide, but also violent crime) to have increased since 1900, around the time that sanitized fairy tales were popularized

i.e. "if fairy tales are the cause of suicide, it should increase consistently since 1900". This is clearly not the case, as proven by your own data. "Things we were doing in 1950-1980 worked and things we did later don't" is a very different discussion and not the one you were having. It seems to me that it is you who misunderstood the argument and are aggressive to your opponent for absolutely no reason.