Message #342723

[Trijhak]

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I may have wasted several minutes by arguing with a Mental Illness denier. As in, they denied mental illnesses didn't exist on the basis they were dehumanising labels applied to people psychiatrists didn't like and that the whole field of psychology isn't science, and they completely failed to understand why we gave psychiatrists and other medical professionals authority on the subjects in the first place is because they have to study for qualifications in order to be medical professionals in the first place, but apparently that's a logical fallacy and a random person on the internet knows better than thousands of scientists. Right. Well. I don't respond well to being told mental illnesses don't exist. You don't change the facts (science) to fit your opinion, you change your opinion to fit the facts. "You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering." -4th Doctor.