You’re asking why you are “expected” to have human empathy? I can’t answer that, but I can tell you that you are personally better off accepting and processing other people’s emotions and experiences, than you are refusing to do so. You are better off with compassion and allowing yourself to feel pain than you are closing off your heart and feeling nothing; doing the latter maims you and your capacity to feel.
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?
You have 600 or so posts since you joined on July 17, 2024. This comes to 4-5 posts per day, and I assume you spend time engaging with the comments as well. If you wanted to stop posting here today, could you keep it up? Do you feel more satisfied while you engage with the community?
Now imagine these feelings times 1000, maybe even more. Your boredom cannot be satiated by posting if you decide to stop your addiction, and maybe you may even think “just one more time, it wont hurt”
This is what drugs are like, usually just one more time does not kill but they cannot make reasonable decisions due to the addiction anyways.
People who start using drugs because of mental illnesses can overdose too, and this will not be known because “it was just another overdose”. In this case dont you agree that the mental illness was the thing that killed them and they would not start using drugs if the healthcare system did not fail them? Do you think they deserve empathy or not?
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.
You’re asking why you are “expected” to have human empathy? I can’t answer that, but I can tell you that you are personally better off accepting and processing other people’s emotions and experiences, than you are refusing to do so. You are better off with compassion and allowing yourself to feel pain than you are closing off your heart and feeling nothing; doing the latter maims you and your capacity to feel.
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.
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?
You have 600 or so posts since you joined on July 17, 2024. This comes to 4-5 posts per day, and I assume you spend time engaging with the comments as well. If you wanted to stop posting here today, could you keep it up? Do you feel more satisfied while you engage with the community?
Now imagine these feelings times 1000, maybe even more. Your boredom cannot be satiated by posting if you decide to stop your addiction, and maybe you may even think “just one more time, it wont hurt”
This is what drugs are like, usually just one more time does not kill but they cannot make reasonable decisions due to the addiction anyways.
People who start using drugs because of mental illnesses can overdose too, and this will not be known because “it was just another overdose”. In this case dont you agree that the mental illness was the thing that killed them and they would not start using drugs if the healthcare system did not fail them? Do you think they deserve empathy or not?
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.