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wahooanswers

unclefather

make--it--gayer

leftwingdigital

yeahiwasintheshit

ex-covid-haver-deactivated20231

“…we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill? The ‘mental health plague’ in capitalist societies would suggest that, instead of being the only social system that works, capitalism is inherently dysfunctional, and that the cost of it appearing to work is very high.”

— Mark Fisher - “Capitalist Realism” (via cocainesocialist)

violaslayvis

mens-rights-activia

It’s 2018 and literally people can’t get it in their head that drug addiction is a disease.

It results from a permanently altered brain that isn’t functioning properly. The brain’s reward centers are messed up. There are studies that even show that the person’s DNA is affected. Their personality is affected. Their actions and behavior is affected. It’s a real fucking disease.

Yeah, it’s easy to say “well their choice to do drugs got them there, so why should I care?”

Well, this argument can be used for a lot of diseases. “Well it’s their choice to not get the hpv vaccine so why should I care that they got cervical cancer.” “Well it’s their choice to go hiking so why should I care that a tick bit them and they got lymes disease?” “Well it’s their choice to eat fatty foods so why should I care that they have heart disease?” Etc.

Chances are, we all have done something that is detrimental to our health at some point in their lives. It doesn’t mean if it results in a disease, we are less deserving of help or compassion because we made choices that contributed to the disease.

There are many reasons why people start doing drugs in the first place. Sometimes it’s a coping mechanism, sometimes it’s self medication, and or sometimes it’s out of sheer curiousity. All of these reasons still warrant compassion and aid.

Shaming and vilifying addicts is not the way to help them. If you really truly cared you would be trying to create a world that is better for addicts to thrive (voting and supporting measures for affordable housing, minimum wage increases, better access to education and childcare, better access to mental healthcare, universal healthcare, etc) as well as actively fighting the conditions (poverty, abuse, lack of resources, inaccess to metal healthcare, etc.) that create new addicts.

thepersephonecabin

shoutout to everyone making progress that no one recognized because you never let anyone see your darkest moments. i see you and i am so, so proud of every little step you’re making in the right direction.

thisbitchyellsback

My feminism will ALWAYS include trans women, sex workers, women of color, disabled women, fat women, intersex women, poor women, neuroatypical women, and all the other women who are often neglected

downwithneocolonialism

llovinghome

The argument against relativism that “not all value systems are the same” makes absolutely no sense. If someone claims that all value systems are equal, that would be an example of absolutism because then you’re saying that they are all absolutely the same. But value systems are constantly changing with the whims of generations and aren’t comparative to other value systems because there’s no objective marker where you can universally claim that one value is superior to another. But I digress because the whole attack on relativism is usually just an appeal to chauvinism and racism so that colonialists can justify their own massacres and conquests.