• HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Are bad/lacking morals a mental illness? Seriously, at what point do we draw the line? It’s a curious topic.

    • Genius@lemmy.zip
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      16 hours ago

      No, they’re not. When psychologists become the arbiters of correct morality and pathologise disagreement, society is fucked.

      You’re thinking of what happens when good people make the rules. But what if people like Freud were in charge of calling certain moral values illnesses? We already have enough problems with things like homosexuality being called a mental illness. What if Trump Derangement Syndrome were in the DSM?

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        13 hours ago

        It’s working it’s way in there. Give it a few more years and they’ll be able to institutionalize us for TDS.