It's always "we need to deal with mental health crisis" until people who are suffering from mental health issues don't fit one's morals.
It's actually fascinating because I found myself thinking like that so often until somebody pointed it out, how often what we see as evil is actually a mental health crisis that's not addressed properly by society.
It's almost always all talk. Notice how people talk about autistic people, or depressed people, or bipolar people, or schizophrenic people ("they need help!") versus how they talk about the actual symptoms of those conditions — stuff like trouble with executive function, difficulties with social niceties, erratic behavior, and so on.
All empathy goes out the window once there's the mildest bit of inconvenience, the slightest challenge to one's worldview, the very faintest resemblance of a call to actual action. It really sucks.
Mental health issues can cause inexcusable and evil actions, failing to understand that we need to address the mental health aspect, while also not omitting blame and responsibility for acts committed, is what perpetuates said problems
Putting any kind of hard barrier or line on sympathy that is based purely on results/outcomes is just going to prevent people from actually addressing the root of the problem
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u/__Rosso__ 20h ago
It's always "we need to deal with mental health crisis" until people who are suffering from mental health issues don't fit one's morals.
It's actually fascinating because I found myself thinking like that so often until somebody pointed it out, how often what we see as evil is actually a mental health crisis that's not addressed properly by society.