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Socrates Respecter
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- Apr 23, 2023
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Apparently Dr. K has made a "controversial" statement on X recently
"Most of the suicidal men that I work with - their mind isn't malfunctioning - they genuinely have a life that is no longer worth living" -
I do not understand what is all the fuss about, to be honest. Seems like most people misinterpreted him and thought he was saying that such men have no value as human beings. While he was talking about the quality of life and the fact that life may not be worth living for the person who's living it.
I think it's very hypocritical of people to say that depression is always a chemical imbalance in the brain and/or never has to do anything with bad real life circumstances. On their view, life is always worth living no matter what which seems blatantly wrong to me. This is the objective standard they are using! And it follows from their position that people can be mistaken only when they say life is bad ("Why did he kill himself, he had such a good life ahead of him! Why couldn't he understand it?), and if one says that life is good, they then suddenly become infallible in their judgement (no matter how bad their life actually is!) !
It's like you can only be wrong in one direction! You can only be mistaken when you think that life is NOT worth living, but not the other way round! A blatant contradiction.
I also think that this toxic positivity devalues and dismisses the suffering many people go through. People like most of us here who believe in the right to die are basically hated by any society. I think that's what the self preservation evolutionary bias does to the collective consciousness. Any dissent from life-affirming orthodoxy is not going to be tolerated! Humanity is pathetic...
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