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> The issue with personality disorders is whether something is a positive or negative is a subjective evaluation. Homosexuality was once considered a personalit
by smt88 3y ago
> The issue with personality disorders is whether something is a positive or negative is a subjective evaluation. Homosexuality was once considered a personality disorder.
It is (and was) easy to see that homosexuality is not a personality disorder because it doesn't harm anyone.
On the other hand, narcissism and BPD are harmful to both the person exhibiting the associated behaviors and to the people around them.
Narcissists may be incredibly successful in some cases, but they also self-report feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and compulsion.
- drewcoo 3y ago> It is (and was) easy to see that homosexuality is not a personality disorder because it doesn't harm anyone. That kind of rewriting of history ignores the torture people like Alan Turing went through for being found out. It dishonors them by writing them out of the past.
- smt88 3y agoI have no idea what in my comment you're responding to. I'm saying that practicing homosexuality has always been victimless, whereas practicing narcissism is not. I'm not at all forgetting the millions of people persecuted for something that harms no one.