Posted by Robert_Burton_1621 on July 21, 2015, at 15:53:49
In reply to Being alarmist? Hyperbolic? Extreme? Ridiculous? U » herpills, posted by 10derheart on July 21, 2015, at 14:49:34
> -nhelpful? Self-centered? Obsessed with imaginary problems on PB?
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> apparently. ;-)It is the confident assertion of misinformed opinion and sweeping anti-medication prejudice that is most concerning. Such misinformation is offered portentously as if it were hard-headed but ultimately necessary advice which places a priority on the best interests of the perplexed poster in preference to the facile and irresponsible provision of a form of "support" whose consequences lead directly to death. On one side, we have the lone, courageous and ethically-irreproachable truth-teller whose warnings of death and disaster fall too frequenlty on deaf ears; on the other, we have the fickle mob of enabling "supporters", whose amorality makes it easy for them without conscience to become complicit in psychiatry's conspiracy to make its patients worse rather than better off.
The most pitiful and lamentable casualties of this binary battle are nuance, well-informed research, evidence-based reasoning, a willingness rationally to consider counter-arguments, and an acknowledgement of one's own limitations.
Alarmist? Hyperbolic? Extreme?
Yes. Objectively these are accurate characterisations, however sincere a person believes his or her subjective intention is.
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