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You're discounting the value of moral thinking. You can reduce everything to a medical issue, because all human behavior is indeed biologically caused, but you
by marcoperaza 9y ago
You're discounting the value of moral thinking. You can reduce everything to a medical issue, because all human behavior is indeed biologically caused, but you are failing to consider that blame and fault and other moral concepts are exactly the kind of thing the mind is responsive to. Why are you so hostile to those, but so eager to pump people full of drugs, designed and dispensed on the basis of our very poor understanding of the the brain[1].
[1] Which is not to say that there's no place for psychiatric medication, but they should not be the first course of action.
- perl4ever 9y agoPsych meds have significant drawbacks, so they usually aren't the first course of action. I mean, a doctor may prescribe something on the first visit, but if the patient tried unsuccessfully for a decade to will themselves to change, it wasn't the first course of action. I think your tendentious language ("pump people full of drugs") is painting a caricature of psychiatrists that's unwarranted.
- watwut 9y agoBecause if you do need that drug or have condition, shaming you instead so that other people are scared and less lazy is unethical. Because blaming and shaming people for their mental conditions makes treatment harder. Because if we are talking about people who tried to change and did not succeeded multiple times, adding more shame solves literally nothing.
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