Stop 'medicalizing' bad behavior
If only I could believe that one day, people would take responsibility for their own actions.
Of course, finding more maladies leads to more patients which leads to a bigger market for treatments which of course leads to more drugs and hence more profits and more doctor visits. So enjoy your maladies and drugs. I'll be teaching my kids to own up for their own actions and not blame them on some physiological or psychiatric 'illness."
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posted by Unknown at
1:24 AM
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Do you mean like Alcohol'ism' is a disease, or perhaps Drug'ism' is a disease? It wasn't enough that distructive behaviors become 'isms', now they have to be diseases we have 'no control over' as if that makes for an excuse to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to 'cure' this debilitating and uncontrollable illness.
How about litigation against tobacco companies for smoker's deaths. Don't you think poverty might be considered a disease? People really don't have any responsibility for the bad 'life decisions' they make... Or maybe it could become a religion first - as in 'the devil made me do it' before it becomes a political 'ism' - I like it = povertyism... Suck all the oxygen out of that one, before moving on to a disease. Hummm.
That's exactly my point, Mr. Woodford. People are able to point to this or that as the reason for making bad choices in life instead of taking responsibility for their decisions. Nothing one forces someone to start drinking alcohol. It is a conscious decision followed by many other conscious decisions to engage in drinking that ultimately lead to addiction. But people make it sound like they have no responsibility at all for these things but are instead, somehow victims. I really get tired of hearing about some new "illness" in the news that explains this bad behavior or that bad behavior instead of hearing people take responsibility for their own bad decisions.
Just like you said... alcoholism, drug abuse, smoking... all those things are examples of this. And people always wanna blame someone else (tobacco companies) for their decisions.
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