Stop treating a BEHAVIOR as an ILLNESS! I am tired of having my tax money go to support morons who CHOOSE to light up, sniff or inject substances that render them incapable of caring for themselves.
It's more than a little complicated.
It's a big cause for humility vs haughtiness.
It's more than a little cause for compassion regardless of the perversities involved.
My housemate and his colleague came to agree that 80+% of the general population suffers from significant levels of Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Illness? DIS-EASE? Depends on one's dictionary.
RAD results in chronic problems of low self-worth; poor family relationships; poor work relationships; poor social relationships; poor impulse control; poor modes of emotional expression.
And, actually MRI studies have repeatedly demonstrated that those with serious degrees of RAD have LITERAL PHYSIOLOGICAL BRAIN DAMAGE in 2 areas of the brain: (A) the area managing RELATIONSHIPS and (B) the area managing emotional expression.
Which part of PHYSIOLOGICAL BRAIN DAMAGE do you believe should not be classified as an ILLNESS?
Have you been your whole life and now 100% free from all addictions? How much RAD have your relationships demonstrated?
Yes, I struggle sometimes with compassion for folks who chronically make stupid choices that cost us taxpayers plenty. Personally, I think parents should qualify (but not to the government) to be allowed to have children. And those with horrible parenting might should be fined--but too often, they are already on welfare to begin with. So what is your solution for that?
Have you ever wanted some compassion for repeatedly dysfunctional habit patterns that cost others in some way or another? What about if those dysfunctional patters were more or less through no conscious choice to go down that path on your own?
We don't have a handy solution. We just know and this article confirms that RAD and the wholesale lack of early life SUFFICIENT AFFECTIONATE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE contributes to a whole long list of dreadful things to individuals, families and society. Actually Youtuber Stefan Molyneux has some apt things to say about this whole ball of wax, as well.
At what point do we lay aside blame long enough to come up some EFFECTIVE solutions? I've never observed blaming the downtrodden to work very well at solving much of anything--regardless of the reasonableness of their having a big chunk of the responsibility.