Mental health is a thing and it needs to be addressed. Buuuuut - all these people are interested in is spending money on the symptoms. What are the drivers of mental illness in young people?
What are the drivers of mental illness in young people?
Feminism and grievance mongering that demonizes the white males. I'm all for addressing mental health as well but we need to realize that most therapists are perpetuating this problem, and throwing money at them isn't the solution.
But we might as well forget it. The right realizes that the mental health industry is infested by idpol grifters but is unwilling to do anything about it, and of course the trick ponies on the left just want to use the shooting as a pretext for gun confiscation.
that most therapists are perpetuating this problem
'Therapy' is mostly useless anyway. It's a jobs program for people with worthless degrees. And that is when they are not actively doing harm like when they persuade teenagers to cut off their breasts.
In general the "if you think X is a problem but you don't support our solution of giving us more money and power you must not actually think X is a problem" is tiresome but this one in particular chafes. "You think there's a mental health crisis but don't want to give money and power to the people that just spend two years isolating, lying to, demoralizing and experimenting on the public and who won't admit any mistake because it was all intentional; pretty hypocritical of you." Alternatively, "you say that 98% of spree shooters are on SSRIs but with only a few tens of billions per year we can get that number to 100%!"
I see the same thing in the abortion debate (disclaimer: am pro-choice). People say that if you oppose abortion, then you have to pay for other people's children - even more than you already do now.
Of course, there is no such principle. Pro-lifers believe that abortion kills a human. You don't have to pay for other people's kids to prevent them from killing them.
It leaves every other question as well, including whether or not general AI is possible. The point is that this question is not relevant, and that lack of support for arbitrarily defined social welfare programs does not make anyone 'hypocritical'.
First thing we need is a mental health system that doesn't treat boys as defective girls, doesn't treat people reacting sanely to an insane situation as insane, doesn't reach for drugs just to make kids pliable in school, etc. Without that, mental health treatment (therapy, drugs, or institutionalization) is just abuse.
Mental health is a thing and it needs to be addressed. Buuuuut - all these people are interested in is spending money on the symptoms. What are the drivers of mental illness in young people?
Feminism and grievance mongering that demonizes the white males. I'm all for addressing mental health as well but we need to realize that most therapists are perpetuating this problem, and throwing money at them isn't the solution.
But we might as well forget it. The right realizes that the mental health industry is infested by idpol grifters but is unwilling to do anything about it, and of course the trick ponies on the left just want to use the shooting as a pretext for gun confiscation.
'Therapy' is mostly useless anyway. It's a jobs program for people with worthless degrees. And that is when they are not actively doing harm like when they persuade teenagers to cut off their breasts.
A lack of community brought about by the technological advances of the modern world. No tribe, no religion, no common purpose, perpetual isolation.
But no one wants to turn back the clock and kick off the Butlerian Jihad.
Whoever is causing that must really hate girls, because mental illness is worse among females.
When it's suits you, it's real, when it doesn't, they're faking it for pills to get high.
In general the "if you think X is a problem but you don't support our solution of giving us more money and power you must not actually think X is a problem" is tiresome but this one in particular chafes. "You think there's a mental health crisis but don't want to give money and power to the people that just spend two years isolating, lying to, demoralizing and experimenting on the public and who won't admit any mistake because it was all intentional; pretty hypocritical of you." Alternatively, "you say that 98% of spree shooters are on SSRIs but with only a few tens of billions per year we can get that number to 100%!"
I see the same thing in the abortion debate (disclaimer: am pro-choice). People say that if you oppose abortion, then you have to pay for other people's children - even more than you already do now.
Of course, there is no such principle. Pro-lifers believe that abortion kills a human. You don't have to pay for other people's kids to prevent them from killing them.
It leaves every other question as well, including whether or not general AI is possible. The point is that this question is not relevant, and that lack of support for arbitrarily defined social welfare programs does not make anyone 'hypocritical'.
There are hundreds of thousands of people waiting on adopting a baby. It's a burden readily taken on by these people.
Uh, yeah. But what we don't need is so called therapy, but institutionalization.
Unfortunately the minute we bring back asylums we will see it used to gulag political dissidents.
First thing we need is a mental health system that doesn't treat boys as defective girls, doesn't treat people reacting sanely to an insane situation as insane, doesn't reach for drugs just to make kids pliable in school, etc. Without that, mental health treatment (therapy, drugs, or institutionalization) is just abuse.