(March 31, 2019 at 4:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Who gets to define illness?
Well, let's see... Whose job is it to define illnesses? Maybe they should keep doing it.
(March 31, 2019 at 4:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote: You?
No, but clearly you have some strong - unbiased, I'm sure - opinions on the matter, so let's go with your unsubstantiated self-serving assertions, why don't we...
(March 31, 2019 at 4:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Does some shrink coming up with a term for a trait actually make it a disease?
I don't know - does it? Is that how medicine works?
(March 31, 2019 at 4:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote: I'd say we have to look at the species as a whole. There are so many men who have this particular "illness" that it's clearly an evolved trait.
By that logic herpes is an "evolved trait"... And what "particular illness" are you talking about? Tendency to lose one's sh*t in a fit of anger can very well be a symptom of a number of mental and physical conditions. People can become uncharacteristically aggressive and anti-social after receiving brain damage, for example, or due to diabetes, as well as variety of mental disorders, like the ones I mentioned and more.
(March 31, 2019 at 4:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote: It's clearly not a trait that's well-adapted to civilized society, but that doesn't mean it's not normal and natural.
Cot death used to be "normal and natural"...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
