• Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 个月前

    I do have compassion for people who die of diseases or mental illnesses and stuff. But drug use I really don’t have sympathy for.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      3 个月前

      Okay, that’s not really compassion. People don’t need to deserve or earn compassion. Having compassion for someone doesn’t mean that you approve of their actions. I don’t think you actually understand what is being said. Your response didn’t really engage with anything I actually said; you’re just restating your same initial feelings, as though trying not to acknowledge what you were responding to. This is exactly the failure to process that I was alluding to. You just turn off part of your brain when it’s desirable not to understand something.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Where do you draw the line between mental illness and substance abuse disorder? Are you aware that the latter is considered by pretty much everyone on the planet, to be included in the former?