Anyway, on to the obligatory quibble.
“throwing biological solutions at spiritual problems might be disrespectful or dehumanizing, or a band-aid that doesn’t affect the deeper problem”
The 6 criteria for disease, including ‘biological’ in so far as that means caused by biological processes simple enough to understand relatively easily and confidently, do seem to me to each provide weak evidential support for any given treatment not being disrespectful, dehumanizing, or superficial. They also seem to provide weak evidence against the listed “reasonable objections to treating any condition with drugs”.
None of the criteria are individually or collectively decisive on those points, but it does seem to me like you could find correlations if you looked.
You’ll have to explain that more. I would have said that “dehumanizing” and “disrespectful” are meaningless weasel words in the context of someone freely choosing to take a drug. Disrespect needs a victim, and I’m wary of the idea of being disrespectful to yourself.
I see fewer ‘selves’ and more ‘agents’ than most people here probably do. In particular, I see all sorts of complex cognitive sub-systems with interests and with the ability to act in the service of those interests within each human. I also see verbal expressions of alleged interests which ignore that complexity and verbalizing sub-systems which attempt to thwart as illegitimate the interests of those other non-verbalizing sub-systems, only to find out that without the cooperation of those other systems they can’t actually get anything done.
More generally, I think that when you look for ostensible definitions, for instance, for the causes of people claiming that something is ‘dehumanizing’ or ‘disrespectful’ and tr to understand the causes of those claims it’s not uncommon that you find some legitimate reasons for concern.
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Anyway, on to the obligatory quibble. “throwing biological solutions at spiritual problems might be disrespectful or dehumanizing, or a band-aid that doesn’t affect the deeper problem” The 6 criteria for disease, including ‘biological’ in so far as that means caused by biological processes simple enough to understand relatively easily and confidently, do seem to me to each provide weak evidential support for any given treatment not being disrespectful, dehumanizing, or superficial. They also seem to provide weak evidence against the listed “reasonable objections to treating any condition with drugs”. None of the criteria are individually or collectively decisive on those points, but it does seem to me like you could find correlations if you looked.
You’ll have to explain that more. I would have said that “dehumanizing” and “disrespectful” are meaningless weasel words in the context of someone freely choosing to take a drug. Disrespect needs a victim, and I’m wary of the idea of being disrespectful to yourself.
I see fewer ‘selves’ and more ‘agents’ than most people here probably do. In particular, I see all sorts of complex cognitive sub-systems with interests and with the ability to act in the service of those interests within each human. I also see verbal expressions of alleged interests which ignore that complexity and verbalizing sub-systems which attempt to thwart as illegitimate the interests of those other non-verbalizing sub-systems, only to find out that without the cooperation of those other systems they can’t actually get anything done.
More generally, I think that when you look for ostensible definitions, for instance, for the causes of people claiming that something is ‘dehumanizing’ or ‘disrespectful’ and tr to understand the causes of those claims it’s not uncommon that you find some legitimate reasons for concern.