• Exocrinous@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Accusing Elon of mental illness doesn’t do any good. It implicitly absolves him off responsibility for his actions, while encouraging harmful stereotypes about mental illnesses.

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      9 months ago

      Weird take. Having a mental illness doesn’t absolve you from responsibility. Where do you get this bullshit from?

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        9 months ago

        Not in the personal sense of guilt, but in the sense of personhood. When you say Elon’s actions are the result of an illness rather than a free unbiased choice, you’re saying that such actions, such evil if you’ll excuse the evocative language, cannot be the result of a person but must be the doing of an illness

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            9 months ago

            Yes, that was the position I started my argument from. Why are you saying it like it’s an argument?

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                9 months ago

                No I don’t. You don’t really understand what this conversation is about, do you?

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                  9 months ago

                  Accusing Elon of mental illness doesn’t do any good. It implicitly absolves him off responsibility for his actions

                  Do you have a mental illness too?