I feel for what you went through, I really do and your story touched me deeply. It definitely puts your investment on the subject in perspective as well.
But, you've been the main cause of the escalation from the very start
I generally do not concern myself with the "you started it" excuses. But if I must: this is simply not true. I very simply expressed in sadness (if the story is true) that I was disappointed in Galchenyuk. Which prompted someone to alcoholism to an evidently deadly disease like cancer. Considering your apparent bias, I do not expect you to be fair, but I would appreciate an honest account, nonetheless.
and the very first person who explicitally voiced being offended.
Sure. I absolutely find the equivalence of alcoholism to cancer offensive. But you see, that's okay. Others have expressed that my views offended them too. That's okay. People are entitlted to their offensive views, assuming of course that it isn't criminal or in this case, against the rules of this board. Our strong disagreements were okay.
But then some arrogant dude came in here calling for people to receive infractions for their views. Naturally, I was less than pleased.
All this stemming from a belief on your part from the fringe disagreeing on what's generally accepted and proven, at least for the moment. The evidence doesn't disappear because scientific dissension exists - thank god it does. But you're not part of it, you're a mouth piece at best, and you were terrible at it here. I mean the man you were citing (whom you mispelled) is a psychologist with literally no published research on the subject.
I have no issues admitting that I may not have communicated my thoughts in the best manner. In fact, I probably did. I also expressed my unwillingness to get into a debate here. There is much more that I haven't said because this isn't the place for it. Nevertheless, I try to maintain a posture of humility, and your words would be more appreciated if you too were at all interested in a humility. To dismiss my views as "fringe" or suggest that I'm a "mouth piece" and terrible at it, yet again, illustrates the arrogance of people like you. You're not nearly as wise or knowledgeable as you portray yourself to be. For what it's worth, I'm certainly no neuroscientist, but I've done extensive research on the matter for projects, research that included interviews with psychologists. Now, some of these psychologists take the view that alcoholism is a disease, but they are much wiser than comparing it to cancer. But I digress.
Listen, these debates are done on almost all psychiatric ilnesses aside from BD and schizophrenia... And even then theres a fringe against the biological implications... So what we're you hoping to gain from this ?
LOL. Spare me the lesson. Your arrogance is nauseating.
You opened that of worm, you escalated it, you didn't make your feelings on the subject clear - what were you expecting on a sensitive subject that touches so many people like this one ? You yourself have been just as emotional about it - and with reason... What you went through, jesus....
Your melodramatic diatribes are unconvincing dude, give it a rest. Some people are so full of themselves and their bias take on things they just can't imagine that others disagree with them. Look, some psychologists subscribe to your model of thinking (disease model of addiction), others subscribe to life-process model, including me, of course. That's fine, let's not pretend that I have committed a thought-crime.
I was actually going to suggest that we create a thread for this in the off-topic forum so we can talk about this at length, in the proper fashion with evidence and analysis, but since the thread could be full of arrogant, condescending diatribes like this, my goodness, never mind, dude.
I'm done with this topic.
Anyway, I hope Galchenyuk is getting the help he needs, if the story is true.
