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Are vices, such as laziness, experienced as being because of us, when they are not under our control, and is this unlike mental illness?
Are vices, such as laziness, experienced as being because of us, when they are not under our control, and is this unlike mental illness?
When someone is mean or lazy we tend to blame them for it, but ...
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What is a "disorder"?
The is-ought gap makes it so we can not derive an ought from an is, correct? Without teleology, how can there be such a thing as a "disorder" or "disability"? The word "...
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Is "mental illness" really a disease, an illness?
Or is it more like a character flaw we're not responsible for.
I have read a bit on this, Szasz, some of the critical people, who I do not claim to be be representing except with the broadest strokes....
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