• @Genius@lemmy.zip
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    7215 days ago

    You shouldn’t blame Zionism on a mental illness. Zionism is a choice to be awful.

    • @outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1615 days ago

      I think all fascism is a mental illness.

      Luckily, there is a treatment, as demonstrated by one of its most famous sufferers. It can even be self administered!

      • @Genius@lemmy.zip
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        No, they’re not. When psychologists become the arbiters of correct morality and pathologise disagreement, society is fucked.

        You’re thinking of what happens when good people make the rules. But what if people like Freud were in charge of calling certain moral values illnesses? We already have enough problems with things like homosexuality being called a mental illness. What if Trump Derangement Syndrome were in the DSM?

    • @angrystego@lemmy.world
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      315 days ago

      That’s not what she does. Being a bad person or even being a psychopath is not considered a mental illness.

      • @Genius@lemmy.zip
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        515 days ago

        In a certain sense you’re right; psychop*th is Greek for “suffering soul”. It’s supposed to just refer to the abstract idea of mental illness. But in practice, it’s a slur against ASPD. And even if that weren’t the case, using the Greek word for mentally ill person as an insult is disgusting behaviour.