The Tweet is Undefendable

[TheReal_ND]

[Speaker to Animals]

Not for nothing, but I have yet to meet a single human being with a properly ordered personality.

Most people might be assholes for one reason or another, but they are still pretty much normal. A personality disorder is off thecharts fucking nuts. Go look at interviews with Jody Arias, for example.

We shouldn't blithely use these terms. People with personity disorders are rare. Most of them seem to be females for some reason, but they are relatively rare.

[SuburbanFarmer]

. . . Blaming others is a classic personality disorder feature and after believing this for many years, people with a Personality Disorder may not truly feel they are responsible for their behavior — even their criminal behavior. They have rethought, reworked, and excused their behaviors to the point that they fail to see that they are the common denominator in all their difficulties. Convicted criminals, with crimes ranging from auto theft to homicide, all have a similar attitude — “Incarceration is unfair”. They don’t factor victims into their crimes in any way. For this reason, those with a Personality Disorder have very little understanding and insight into their attitudes that ruin relationships. Victims will assure you that trying to explain a normal, healthy position to an individual with a Personality Disorder is almost impossible.
http://counsellingresource.com/therapy/ ... tanding/3/

The problem with pushing a 'victim' narrative onto society is that it breeds mental illness. Whether this manifests as veteran's rising disability claims and suicide rates or the abysmal performance of multi-generational "welfare" families, the evidence is hard to ignore. You really want to fuck up a generation or demographic of people? Tell them it's ok that they're useless to society, because circumstances (war, trauma, poverty, racism, etc) are to blame, and then reward them for being non-productive victims.
Watch those suicide rates soar.
Turns out being pitied by the majority isn't healthy.

Something to keep in mind, since you'll be raising a gaggle of your own little GCFs.

/shrug

I'm no victim, snowflake. I rise above and make my own future. But at the same time, I recognize that that future is largely dictated by the system that I was born into.

I don't have the option to homestead on the prarie, any more than I have the option to found my own city-state. I don't have the option to hunt the local wildlife, or even keep fucking chickens in my yard. I know that I'll have to pay taxes, and that those taxes will be lighter if I do one thing over another. I could drive 20-over when I'm late to work, but the incentive is not to, because there's a damn revenue-collector posted every 3 miles on the highway.

All of these are incentives built into the system that influence my behavior. Now, if some jackalope walks along the street, notices my sad lack of chickens in the yard, and concludes that therefore I am incapable of raising chickens because of personal laziness, then he is an asshat. As is anyone trying to judge people without taking the entire setting into account.

[Speaker to Animals]

You sort of can do those things. People are even now building their little crypto nations within nations as western civilization disintegrates.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Not for nothing, but I have yet to meet a single human being with a properly ordered personality.

Most people might be assholes for one reason or another, but they are still pretty much normal. A personality disorder is off thecharts fucking nuts. Go look at interviews with Jody Arias, for example.

We shouldn't blithely use these terms. People with personity disorders are rare. Most of them seem to be females for some reason, but they are relatively rare.

Totally lacking a sense of personal responsibility can be a sign of a personality disorder... but so can pathological self blame or self regard.

I think the personal agency versus society argument is one of them false choices you hear 'bout.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Not for nothing, but I have yet to meet a single human being with a properly ordered personality.

Most people might be assholes for one reason or another, but they are still pretty much normal. A personality disorder is off thecharts fucking nuts. Go look at interviews with Jody Arias, for example.

We shouldn't blithely use these terms. People with personity disorders are rare. Most of them seem to be females for some reason, but they are relatively rare.

Totally lacking a sense of personal responsibility can be a sign of a personality disorder... but so can pathological self blame or self regard.

I think the personal agency versus society argument is one of them false choices you hear 'bout.

And that's all I'm trying to point out - that it's not a dichotomy. You simply can't pretend that peoples' circumstances are all due to personal agency. That's like saying a disabled kid "deserved it" because his parents didn't pray enough.

[TheReal_ND]

[Speaker to Animals]

Gee.. do you think, senator?

[TheReal_ND]

[TheReal_ND]

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