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rkajdi posted:Again, we see the IMO dumb argument that correcting a mental condition makes someone a "different person". As I mentioned in the other thread, this is the kind of stuff that kept me from going to mental health experts when I was younger. It is some seriously disordered thinking and needs to be combated at every level. There is no authentic you, different you, or whatever. Messing with your brain still has you be the same person the same way that you'd still be the same person after getting a heart operation or having an amputation. I'd as soon fix someone with autism as fix someone with Downs. It's not something that's currently possible, but looking at it in this way is a surefire way to ensure that we never make any progress. Could you imagine if we had similar BS going around when anti-psychotics were first invented? I know to some extent D&D is anti-psych (or at least has a good number of anti-psych boosters who post on said topics) but you need to understand that it's an inherently anti-science and backward position to come from, where you leave a bunch of people to fail to cope with life-- but at least they are the "same person" or some garbage which is important for reasons. That really depends on what "person" means to you, which is a pretty much 100% arbitrary value judgement. By many defintions, correcting a mental condition does effectively produce a different person. The question is whether that's a bad thing. E-Tank posted:You're right, the feelings, opinions, and experiences of people who actually have the disorders are irrelevant because you say so. I have Crohn's Disease, my thoughts on treatment of Crohn's Disease mean fuckall.
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