Telling a lazy person “Get up and do some work, you worthless bum,” very well might cure the laziness.
That depends a lot on whether or not the reason they’re not working is because they already feel they’re worthless… in which case the result isn’t likely to be an improvement.
yes, but this still does not classify their laziness as a desease, does it?
Maybe you should read the article again, or the previous articles on definitions and question-dissolving, because you seem to have missed the part where “is it a disease?” isn’t a real question.
“Disease” is just a node in your classification graph—it doesn’t have any real existence in the outside world. It’s a bit like an entry in a compression algorithm’s lookup table. It might contain an entry for ‘Th’ when compressing text, because a capital T is often followed by a lower-case ‘h’. But this doesn’t mean anything—it’s just an artifact of the compression process.
That depends a lot on whether or not the reason they’re not working is because they already feel they’re worthless… in which case the result isn’t likely to be an improvement.
yes, but this still does not classify their laziness as a desease, does it?
Maybe you should read the article again, or the previous articles on definitions and question-dissolving, because you seem to have missed the part where “is it a disease?” isn’t a real question.
“Disease” is just a node in your classification graph—it doesn’t have any real existence in the outside world. It’s a bit like an entry in a compression algorithm’s lookup table. It might contain an entry for ‘Th’ when compressing text, because a capital T is often followed by a lower-case ‘h’. But this doesn’t mean anything—it’s just an artifact of the compression process.
And so is the idea of a “disease”.
Well, I won’t much sympathize with them, but I would offer them a medical treatment, if it existed and they asked for it.