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Your cause and effect are backwards. People think that obesity, depression, alcoholism, ADHD are moral failings because they think that they're under your consc
by waqf 10y ago
Your cause and effect are backwards. People think that obesity, depression, alcoholism, ADHD are moral failings because they think that they're under your conscious control and therefore not susceptible to biochemical intervention.
(In particular, to break the cycle we'd have to start by teaching people better biology — it's no good arguing with people's morals if you don't start from the same basis of facts as them.)
- moron4hire 10y agoI think you're just misreading what I wrote. "People think it's a choice because they think it's immoral" is clearly an absurd parsing.