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Which western countries are these?

America , UK, Canada , Australia and, NZ because they have similarly structured Family law courts.

White men are the highest suicide rate in the Western world at 77% in the US, that's a lot of evidence against the existence of white male privilege.

Divorced men (not just white men) are eight times more likely to commit suicide than divorced women. It's called divorce rape for a reason. Being married is a very risky proposition for a western man, you can literally have everything you have worked your whole life for, taken from you.

so I'm interested to know if this claim has any statistical basis.

It does.

Family law in western society make it easy for women to behave very badly on the way out of marriages. I've had women lawyers tell me how weighted against men family law is so it is little wonder that men are checking out when they discover they are sold a lie that they invested all their time and life into.

Finding her shooting is not difficult at all. As for the cute trick you pulled weaseling in the claim about wikipedia and "independent reliable sources" nothing could be further from the truth. Wikipedia's definition of a "reliable source" is any source which says something approved of by Wikiproject:Feminism. Personal blog posts and tweets are reliable sources for any claim if the person making them is someone like Zoe Quinn while third party newsmedia articles are unreliable if they dispute feminists' claims.

But the kind of science you want is also not occurring in academic labs. It will never again occur in academic labs, because academics has been undermined by the multiple generations of decreasingly literate students.

For details of the long-term problem, see The Happy Days Ahead by Robert A. Heinlein.

(One thing to keep in mind about Heinlein: he was a compulsive newspaper-clipper. That is to say that he would clip newspaper articles about a subject and file them away. By the time he wrote The Happy Days Ahead, he had about 50 years' newspaper clippings on the subject. He could cite long-term trends in education, with the decades of clippings to back it up.)

But the kind of science you want is also not occurring in academic labs. It will never again occur in academic labs, because academics has been undermined by the multiple generations of decreasingly literate students.

For details of the long-term problem, see The Happy Days Ahead by Robert A. Heinlein.

(One thing to keep in mind about Heinlein: he was a compulsive newspaper-clipper. That is to say that he would clip newspaper articles about a subject and file them away. By the time he wrote The Happy Days Ahead, he had about 50 years' newspaper clippings on the subject. He could cite long-term trends in education, with the decades of clippings to back it up.)

Asia has something of a stereotype for suicide but Europe, especially Eastern Europe, takes the cake.

The suicide rate in Canada is about 3600 deaths per year for 1992 in a population of 28.4 million. If Foxconn employs 800,000 workers, one would expect 101 suicides, assuming the same suicide rate. This is far higher than the number actually experienced at FoxConn, where only 9 people have died as of May.

Based on this, working for Foxconn in China is better than living in Canada, at least as far as suicide risk is concerned.

This puts the numbers in perspective. Down with the oppressive Canadian Imperialist Overlords!

I never said they were "evil" (whatever that means), I only said that we should put them out of our collective misery. One can feel sorry for a dog with rabies while still acknowledging that the best course of action is to shoot the poor thing.

"Evil" is a banal term, sure. But, it should, to most people, conjure up images of people actively perpetrating harm to others for no other reason than that person's amusement. Your argument seemed to be that rapists, pedophiles and serial killers "choose" to do harm to people and therefore are of no value. It's easy to justify such a flawed argument if you rationalize it by labeling the people as "evil", which you're doing even if you're not using that specific term.

And when that "first fellow" just happens to have a 1 in a billion DNA match to the semen we found inside her?

Very few posses actually take the time to do a DNA test. But, if there wasn't any DNA as appears to be the case in about 20% of rape cases?

No institution created by man has been or ever will be perfect.

I'm sure that brings great comfort to those put to death who were later exhonorated due to DNA or other evidence.

I don't buy the argument that past errors on the part of the criminal justice system should exclude current criminals from forfeiting their lives for crimes committed.

Hmmm...and, what is "past" for you? Five years ago? Under your form of "justice", this fellow would've been put to death. You've put your faith in a system that relies on useless eyewitness testimony, and reasonably imperfect technologies to make convictions. Given the level of CURRENT imperfection, I reiterate: we're not mature enough as a society to be putting people to death. Period.

Actually foreigners usually make a greater effort to ensure accurate language. Sometimes they might just not "get it" due to huge semantic differences in the languages, which is why they might say things in a strange way from time to time. But mostly the sloppiness and laziness comes from the native speaker.

"I saw sharply this progressive deterioration because part of my mail comes from abroad, especially Canada, the United Kingdom, the Scandinavian countries, and Japan. A letter from any part of the Commonwealth is invariably neat, legible, grammatical, correct in spelling, and polite. The same applies to letters from Scandinavian countries. (Teenagers of Copenhagen usually speak and write English better than most teenagers of Santa Cruz.) Letters from Japan are invariably neat-but the syntax is sometimes odd. I have one young correspondent in Tokyo who has been writing steadily these past four years. The hand-writing in the first letter was almost stylebook perfect but I could hardly understand the phrasing; now, four years later, the handwriting looks the same but command of grammar, syntax, and rhetoric is excellent, with only an occasional odd choice in wording giving an exotic flavor."

- Robert A. Heinlein, "The Happy Days Ahead" (1980)

Apropros: It's uncommon, but it does happen:

    http://fathersforlife.org/suicides/Allen_Wells/key_page.htm ..rather a sad story.

..... The sun is responsible for "global warming". ...

That is in fact the truth! Solar output has been if fact observed to be rising for the last 150 or so years. It has been accurately measured by satellites for about 24 years now and they too show a steadily rising output. There re many places you can google this.

http://www.fathersforlife.org/doc/Solar_Variabilit y_20031205.pdf

The Bible has many prophecies concerning the times of the end. Some of them have come true in our time. Some of them have the possibility of coming true only now, because we have the means to keep track of people and their money, a capability no human authority ever had until the advent of our modern technology. Jesus talked of a time of such horrible trouble coming upon the Earth, that nothing alive would survive, save for God's intervention. Exploding a sufficient number of nuclear weapons could certainly threaten all life on this planet. Since this thread is (once again) about global warming, there is something written in the Bible concerning this as well. Nobody has ever proved the Bible wrong in its historical writings. Some of that history was written down long before it happened.

Isaiah 30:26 The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.
Revelation 16:8-9 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and the sun was given power to scorch people with fire. They were seared by the intense heat and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these plagues, but they refused to repent and glorify him.

When this comes true, someday, humanity will be in for some REAL global warming!

..... If more radiation hits the Earth and the Sun is spewing out more heat, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this?.......

Of course it can and that is in fact what is happening. Man is NOT the cause of global warming, but it is a consequence of the factors you stated and other natural phenomena. Humans in their arrogance think they can affect the entire globe by their puny activities. We could not affect these natural cycles in either direction, even if we desperately wanted to. Just look at a globe and how much of even only the total land area is occupied by humans. Hurricane Katrina carried more energy by far, than all human activities in producing and using energy. That was just ONE good sized storm of how many? Any given percentage of solar output will have a far greater effect on the earth's temperature than an equal percentage of carbon dioxide increase. Specialized satellites have measured increasing average solar output for the last 24 years. Just doing a cursory Google search shows this. Look at this article:

http://www.fathersforlife.org/doc/Solar_Variabilit y_20031205.pdf

There was a man named Goebbels who said that if you tell a lie outrageous, enough as well as loud and long enough, the majority of people will believe it. Unfortunately Hitler's propaganda minister was correct in this. Is this not the principle of all advertising? The only difference is that the lies there are not usually quite as outrageous as the one that states that global warming is human caused. The most believable lies are the ones that have some truth mixed in with them. The truth is, there is global warming and the lie is that human activity is the cause.

Is Alberta Report not a non-American source? They were adamant in their opposition to UNICEF, and were neither trolls nor ignorant. It was because the actions of the United Nations are not particularly benign, and UNICEF perhaps their most dangerous organization with its most pleasant fascade.

Look how good being pacifist has worked in the past: [...] France in general

When?

The French had more soldiers killed in World War II than the U.S. did. Their generals and military doctrine may have been awful, but it wasn't pacifistic.

http://www.fathersforlife.org/hist/wwiicas.htm

Yep. Found a reference.. apparently from Heinlein himslf. Looks like both the patent and the free (un-assembled) water bed occured -- but as unrelated incidents.
(and, yes -- the other response is from my alter-ego).

Don't forget Russia, China, Sweden, etc

Suicide rates in Japan are high for sure, but not nearly as 'disturbingly' high as people tend to think.
See the World Health Organization or check this nice overview of a view selected countries.

The political left (feminism) considers it exploitative

a-ha, but that depends on what kind of feminist though. and feminism isn't intrinsically left wing either. you get capitalist (right wing) feminists too.