I'm trying to understand the underlying presuppositions which lead you to this opinion.
Are you convinced psychiatric medicine:
- is not effective?
- is over-prescibed?
- is a worse treatment than therapy?
- is harmful?
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On a related note, Centrelink added a new song!
Bless them! They're so generous to provide us with something new to listen to while we wait to talk to someone for over an hour, to ask them why we haven't been paid when we submitted a claim two months ago!
And then for some unlucky people "sorry your claim has been rejected, please start a new claim and have it assessed in a few months, and we'll back pay you to today, not two months ago".
Well that was condescending and not very constructive.
Can you tell me which modern religion doesn't profess to provide a moral compass?
One of the first things you're taught to understand when interpreting data is that you have a bias. It is impossible not to have a bias.
Take for example: 1+1=2. Is it an extremely simple equation, or a decades long mathematical pursuit to establish certainty?
Our bias tells us we can confidently assert such simple statements, but the truth is, unless we spend an agonising length of time understanding the most insignificant and asinine facts, we NEED biases to understand the world.
The point of understanding we have biases is to think more critically about which ones are most obviously wrong.
While many medical doctors do not recite the Hippocratic Oath, it is totally applicable here.
FIRST DO NO HARM.
Prolonging pain without a foreseeable remedy is harmful. This is a no brainer.
I know they aren't, I'm saying their claim is that they are.
It's even common to claim everything God does is just and right. If gay people get killed in a nightclub, it's because they've sinned, and that's Gods will, therefore, the gunman was doing the right thing.
Then you get the people with cognitive dissonance who claim that slavery was moral because God stipulated rules about how the slaves should be treated and "it was a different time".
Then you get the people who turn themselves into bombs and believe mass murder is right, and the people that died should thank them, because the psycho took their victims to heaven with them.
Then you get the people who vote against abortion rights because they believe the most ethical thing to do is save babies, even if it risks the mothers life, or guarantees poor life quality (either from poverty or developmental issues).
It's ALL a moral claim. When your moral foundation is God, nothing you can do in service of what that God supposedly says can be wrong.
For the uninitiated:
- 2.2 NY = 4.1 Sheet Cants
- 2.2 YN = 3.8 Dawg Cants
Their main point is to convince people they are, hence, gay pope.
What is even the point of religion now? They profess to be a moral compass, but when they catch-up with the times, half of their followers cry "traitor!".
When you try to take some cute little sea critters home but realise they'll die outside of their environment:
Alright then, keep your sea crits.