(January 4, 2019 at 2:14 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Suicidal ideation is the very definition of dysfunctional. Things always feel like chemistry, we're just not used to thinking of our feelings that way.Yeah, I'm not sure that's true. Function implies a goal-- but other than instincts, which in many cases we actively seek to override using rationale, what goals are really intrinsic? Is participation in the evolutionary dance right because that's what we're supposed to be programmed to do? If so, then abortion is out, homosexuality, and many of the other things that are represented in the idea of genetic fitness.
Quote:If you're having suicidal thoughts, and normalizing the impulse via some crack at philosophy...then you need to talk to somebody other than myself. Depression is treatable, you don't have to feel this that way.Yeah yeah, I'll assume that you've said all the things a person is supposed to say when people talk like that.
Don't worry, I'm not on that page right now. However, I've had some forays into that territory, and I'm very interested in how it presents philosophically. Depression is fascinating, actually, because it isn't just a sense of sadness-- it's something much more profound than that.
