""Mental illness" incles maladies that lead people to erupt into violence for no reason."
Absolutely. But sadly people like Rivka aren't interested in the messy realities of mental illness (or any aspect of life really). Life needs to fit within the narrow confines of whatever they find palatable, and anything outside of that is "Nazism".
""Mental illness" incles maladies that lead people to erupt into violence for no reason."
Absolutely. But sadly people like Rivka aren't interested in the messy realities of mental illness (or any aspect of life really). Life needs to fit within the narrow confines of whatever they find palatable, and anything outside of that is "Nazism".
Thomas Sowell made an interesting (if a little simplistic) point on this. He breaks people down (he uses liberal and conservative but that's *really* simplistic) into those who think that human nature is good and that only systems need to be changed, and those who accept that aspects of human nature re deeply flawed and that there's a limit to how much that can be changed.
The tension between these two extremes is healthy, I think. But a significant number of SJWs don't know how to frame the flaws in human nature and psychology in any other way than to call them evil (they never notice their own flaws of course). And to dismiss people as evil, you have to ignore any extenuating factors like mental illness or the simple possibility that you're wrong.
I think liberal/conservative is the wrong way to slice the pizza. As IтАЩve said, the SJWs have more in common with NAGA that with real progressives or with good people in general.
I see the slice more as inborn/teleological and retrofit. The reason liberals keep losing is the belief that other people are as logical and reasonable as they are and that appeals to rational thought will win. Conservatives appeal to resentment and hate and hew closer to reality.
People are born with drives, they arenтАЩt born with logic. Logic and reason and reciprocity are acquired, except they usually arenтАЩt.
As for liberals and conservatives, it appears their brains are different.
IтАЩll write more details when I wake up. Back to sleep.
ThatтАЩs better than I expected from AEI and I almost stopped reading when the writer went into that тАЬmarketтАЭ crap, but he wasnтАЩt as doctrinaire as I was expecting.
I think economics is mostly pseudoscientific bunk and market forces are pure religion, and I walk out of any discussion that turns to supply and demand.
IтАЩd love to believe that human unity is achievable but I canтАЩt.
I believe we will become extinct before people alive today die of old age, maybe before I do, the only question is how much of the natural kingdom we take with us. And what will kill us is conservatives.
""Mental illness" incles maladies that lead people to erupt into violence for no reason."
Absolutely. But sadly people like Rivka aren't interested in the messy realities of mental illness (or any aspect of life really). Life needs to fit within the narrow confines of whatever they find palatable, and anything outside of that is "Nazism".
Thomas Sowell made an interesting (if a little simplistic) point on this. He breaks people down (he uses liberal and conservative but that's *really* simplistic) into those who think that human nature is good and that only systems need to be changed, and those who accept that aspects of human nature re deeply flawed and that there's a limit to how much that can be changed.
The tension between these two extremes is healthy, I think. But a significant number of SJWs don't know how to frame the flaws in human nature and psychology in any other way than to call them evil (they never notice their own flaws of course). And to dismiss people as evil, you have to ignore any extenuating factors like mental illness or the simple possibility that you're wrong.
I think liberal/conservative is the wrong way to slice the pizza. As IтАЩve said, the SJWs have more in common with NAGA that with real progressives or with good people in general.
I see the slice more as inborn/teleological and retrofit. The reason liberals keep losing is the belief that other people are as logical and reasonable as they are and that appeals to rational thought will win. Conservatives appeal to resentment and hate and hew closer to reality.
People are born with drives, they arenтАЩt born with logic. Logic and reason and reciprocity are acquired, except they usually arenтАЩt.
As for liberals and conservatives, it appears their brains are different.
IтАЩll write more details when I wake up. Back to sleep.
Thomas Sowell's book, "A Conflict of Visions" https://www.amazon.com/Conflict-Visions-Ideological-Political-Struggles/dp/0465002056 offers a more complete view of the issue than the simple Liberal/conservative labels in common usage. I don't know how many of his books you've read, but he is deeper than that.
Here's a well written review. Obviously different reviewers will have different takes on it. https://www.aei.org/economics/review-thomas-sowells-a-conflict-of-visions/
ThatтАЩs better than I expected from AEI and I almost stopped reading when the writer went into that тАЬmarketтАЭ crap, but he wasnтАЩt as doctrinaire as I was expecting.
I think economics is mostly pseudoscientific bunk and market forces are pure religion, and I walk out of any discussion that turns to supply and demand.
IтАЩd love to believe that human unity is achievable but I canтАЩt.
I believe we will become extinct before people alive today die of old age, maybe before I do, the only question is how much of the natural kingdom we take with us. And what will kill us is conservatives.