I never stated my opinion was superior.
Yet somehow you think there is such a thing as a right to interfere with choices made by others, regarding themselves.
Being able to discern the signs of mental illness
And who defines "mental illness"? How would you like it if other folks arbitrarily declared that opposition to abortion was a sign of mental illness --erroneously thinking there is such a thing as a right to interfere with choices made by others, regarding themselves? Especially when the
claim that abortion affects another person is provably false!!! (Because persons are
minds, not bodies.)
and help people with mental illness
There you go again, making unproved assumptions, like the one about whether or not someone else wants help, or that you have some sort of right to interfere.
FALSE, as just explained above.
no more than spotting the signs of a stroke and rushing someone to the hospital.
A stroke is definitely something that is independent of an opinion.
Identifying its signs, however, sometimes
is a matter of opinion (usually when the stroke is very mild). And rushing the alleged stroke victim to the hospital almost always involves the opinion that they want to be saved. How do you know for sure, if you didn't ask in advance?
Spotting the warning signs of metal illness can not only prevent suicide
Yet in the Far East suicide was for many centuries considered to be an honorable action. Do you know why? Because the place was overpopulated for many centuries! Which is why all claims that "human life has intrinsic value" are
provably false. The Law of Supply and Demand applies to
everything, period.
but a lot of the mass shootings that are associated with such depression.
I want to see you provide some
evidence supporting that claim. Thanks in advance!
I also believe a lot of criminals have some form of mental illness as well.
Most crimes can be directly traced to "excess selfishness". The criminals are basically all saying, "What **I** want is more important than what anyone/everyone else wants." The real problem for Society is to accurately define "excess", because every life-form on the planet is inherently selfish (feeding your face IS a selfish act, see?), and so there is a degree of selfishness that must be accepted/tolerated by Society.
Not acknowledging mental illness is just as stupid as not acknowledging diabetes, heart disease, cancer, or other physical ailments.
ACTUAL ailments definitely need to be acknowledged. And since the mind is in-essence "software getting processed", and since software often has "bugs", it is perfectly logical that the mind can ail, too. Here is where extensive knowledge of computers comes in handy. Because sometimes certain aspects of software are simultaneously called "features" and "bugs" by different people. Who is right?
An exact example of "feature or bug" relates to the phenomenon called "homosexuality", a sexual preference for one's own gender. Lots of cultures declare it to be a bug, but the fact is, that declaration was arbitrarily made without knowledge of all the relevant facts. Hundreds of millions of years ago, when life-forms invented sexual reproduction,
all that started reproducing that way were "hermaphrodites", with each individual having both sexes. Some species still are hermaphroditic today (earthworms, certain snails, and more). Now note that the
definition of "homosexual" applies to hermaphrodites --each has to seek its own kind in order to reproduce, when all of the members of that species are that kind! For them, homosexuality is most definitely a feature, not a bug.
NOW note that hermaphroditic species are
ancestral to all species in which the sexes became separated. The associated sexual-preference software (built into DNA) was Evolutionarily updated, but not perfectly, and therefore homosexual activities have been observed in more than 1500 normally-heterosexual species, not just humans. What once was an important feature is now outdated, but is not actually a bug.
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