“Stupidity is a mental illness” is the only scary label. But it is a REALLY SCARY label.
That’s the point of this post, I think.
Mental illness is a very scary label—because it’s a terrible thing to be. And we should work hard on being able to cure mental illness.
Stupid is an equally terrible thing to be—terrible to yourself and to your friends and to society at large. We should work just as hard on making people not-stupid as we do on making them not-depressed. But we don’t actually work hard on that, and that’s a real problem.
That’s the point of this post, I think.
Mental illness is a very scary label—because it’s a terrible thing to be. And we should work hard on being able to cure mental illness.
Stupid is an equally terrible thing to be—terrible to yourself and to your friends and to society at large. We should work just as hard on making people not-stupid as we do on making them not-depressed. But we don’t actually work hard on that, and that’s a real problem.