In the examples of your son and mine, what is the difference between symptom (socially inappropriate behavior) and the disease (occurrence of socially inappropriate behavior?
I was thinking of the ‘disease’ as an irrational indifference to the long-term good, a disease of which no one is entirely cured.
But in my defense, I think that this question is a be beyond the scope of my family-as-dictatorship metaphor.
Fair point. Dictators can’t force anyone to do anything either, so that point hardly pulls agains the dictatorship metaphor. I think even if there were an Imperius Curse it would be impossible. Come to think of it, this seems like a point of metaphysics: nothing could be the case such that forced action would be possible. Wait, that seems crazy. Am I getting something wrong here?
I was thinking of the ‘disease’ as an irrational indifference to the long-term good, a disease of which no one is entirely cured.
Fair point. Dictators can’t force anyone to do anything either, so that point hardly pulls agains the dictatorship metaphor. I think even if there were an Imperius Curse it would be impossible. Come to think of it, this seems like a point of metaphysics: nothing could be the case such that forced action would be possible. Wait, that seems crazy. Am I getting something wrong here?