Fuck the haters.

This is a phrase you should repeat to yourself. If someone can't understand your mental issues, and doesn't give you an ounce of compassion, they're simply not worth your time or consideration. There are, unfortunately, a lot of such people in the world. There are also a lot of people who DO care. When you're depressed, the latter group can tend to fade completely into the former.

Get yourself to a doctor. Get family to help if you can. Even if you find that drugs do not help -- and while I understand that your mother had a serious problem with them in the past -- they're probably not going to immediately send you to a mental institution. If you do get a prescription, do some due diligence yourself. The internet is full of information that was previously only available to doctors. This is why, when a family member was prescribed Paxil a few years ago, I urged caution and told them to be on the lookout for the feeling of "electricity", because it was part of a well-known terrible side effect and withdrawal effect. It's a good thing, too, because they encountered this, so we worked to get them off of the drug and onto something different.

The antidepressants I have experience with were quite low dose, but we still did have to try a couple before we found one that worked with a minimum of side effects. Any good doctor would know this and work with you. If you get a doctor that doesn't schedule a follow-up visit in 30 days after prescribing you an antidepressant / antianxiety medication, find another doctor.

Even if you're not prescribed a medication, having someone to talk to would be beneficial by itself. This is not something you should have to go alone. You (likely) have a problem with your brain chemistry. The reason that it seems easy for everyone else is that they DON'T have a problem with their brain chemistry; it IS easier for them. That's NOT your fault.

Becoming brave is a noble goal, but you should embrace the idea that this is a medical condition that needs treatment. If other people disagree and think you can just "power through it", fuck em. They don't get it, and probably never will.

For any objection presented for some course of action it is demonstrable that it is the outcome and not the action itself which presents a moral problem. So if the outcome is good, the action is good.

You failed to account for unintended consequences among other things.
1/10. Third grade level work.

Laws don't change because "me and all my friends want them to change", unless you and all your friends are an oligarchy.

Just dead fucking opposite.

There is no excuse in America to outlaw gay marriage. There is no justification for it.

It's exactly the same situation with pot. The constitution is written on hemp, and prohibition requires a constitutional amendment. They just decided not to bother when they switched the target.

It doesn't matter what most people want because the people who wrote the Constitution went out of their way to make sure that this is not a Democracy, it's a Constitutional Republic.

Just because we have a long history of not being as good as our ideals doesn't mean we aren't expected to live up to them.

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Are you on any sort of treatment for your social anxiety? You don't mention it in your text. If not, why not?

Buy your friend a tin foil hat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Security_quality

Well, I'm glad someone is keeping their egos in check.

As it happens, so is your alternative.

I bet Gnome kills classic mode because too many people are using it.

Doesn't Comedy Central restrict streaming off of their website directly to the US?

(I mean, sure, you could pretty trivially get around it with a proxy based in the US, but still.)

when did you last check the batteries in your "batshit crazy" detector?

I believe you'll find that those run on a mixture of zero point energy and unicorn farts.
Trust me on this one. Mine's on the fritz and I'm working up a new fuel cell charger using /dev/zero for that part.

Long-time Linux user here. I gotta disagree. MS Office is tangibly better in a lot of ways (mostly the ones that the GP posted as a sibling to this post) than LibreOffice.

You would do the free software community a service by not trumping up free software and simply describing it as it is. LibreOffice has a lot of use cases, but Office is still a very well put together set of productivity apps.

You do a root cause analysis on a selection of IT's failures. After you sort through the proximate causes, see if justifiable case can be made for management error as the root causes. If yes, the presentation is: I analyzed several failures and it all tracks back to Joe.

Also, the right against self-incrimination disrupts chains of horror like the Salem witch trials.

If you have the right not to be beaten but don't have the right against self-incrimination then after the beating the confession is still valid in court. If the executive then declines to punish the officers for the beating, the right not to be beaten fades to a paper tiger.

Your error lies in thinking like a computer where something is an absolute yes or an absolute no. The law is a living thing implemented by people in a "more or less" fashion. If you're serious about preventing a bad behavior, you make it worse than futile to engage in it.