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In reply to the discussion: Should conservatism be classified as a mental disorder? [View all]Marengo
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Directed towards the author of the OP. As for the rest of DU, I suppose the responses...
Marengo
Aug 2016
#15
Then you're saying petitioning for one's preferred social policy is a mentsl disorder.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#33
I'm saying the source of one's preferred social (and fiscal) policy might be a sign
Matrosov
Aug 2016
#35
Cool story, brah. I'm aware of the history of punitive psychology in the Soviet Union...
Marengo
Aug 2016
#48
My impression is that you are attempting to classify dissent from anything other than...
Marengo
Aug 2016
#66
I'm getting pretty goddamned tired of people cheapening mental illness.
Act_of_Reparation
Aug 2016
#21
Psychopathy is a personality disorder, which is not the same thing as a mental illness.
Odin2005
Aug 2016
#78
To me, the pathologizing of politics seems more acceptable recently. Even scientific and therefore..
Marengo
Aug 2016
#67
Think of re-education camps when you think of how the right would "fix" the Left's pathology.
ancianita
Aug 2016
#73
A solid reply. I honestly cannot foresee a "rational" argument against it.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#39
"I'm attacking them for their psychopathic drive to destroy everyone who is different."
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2016
#43
I read part of that work. I can perceive the allure of the concept to certain personality types.
Marengo
Aug 2016
#69
After all of both I've seen on DU, I wouldn't say conservatism holds a monopoly.
Marengo
Aug 2016
#70
Even the conservatism of the Constitutional signers was flawed. It was exclusionary, period.
ancianita
Aug 2016
#63