• wahming@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    Not to the point it becomes entirely ineffective. The point here is that we don’t have a better way of dealing with or treating people with this issue. It’s the least-worst option we have available to us.

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      1 year ago

      I still don’t think feeding/appeasing the problem is better than treating it and cutting it out.

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        1 year ago

        I would agree with you, if we had any plausible way of treating and cutting it out. Unfortunately we don’t, short of chemical castration.

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          1 year ago

          You think counseling or therapy is entirely ineffective?

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            1 year ago

            Thus far, counselling and therapy is almost entirely only obtained by the portion of the group that has already acted on their thoughts and urges. I think we can agree that that’s probably too late in terms of harm prevention. I also doubt we have the resources to provide that sort of personal treatment to everybody suffering from the issue, at least under our current system.

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              1 year ago

              But that doesn’t mean we should give up

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                1 year ago

                I’m not suggesting we do, that was not the point of the original discussion.