DES MOINES, Iowa (KWWL) - A resolution was introduced in the Iowa Senate Wednesday that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that guarantees the right to same-sex

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DES MOINES, Iowa (KWWL) - A resolution was introduced in the Iowa Senate Wednesday that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that guarantees the right to same-sex

  • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    162·
    1 day ago

    Instead of giving the state another avenue for oppression, what if we label religion as the disease that it is and work with mental health professionals to develop a treatment for it?

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      10·
      1 day ago

      This could easily turn into another avenue for oppression. “Desginate x a mental illness and treat it” doesn’t necessarily turn out any better than “Put all the practitioners of x in the gulag.” So really you need to focus on overthrowing the authoritarians who want to oppress people.

      • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I agree in the sense that any useful tool is a weapon in the wrong hands. I would argue (partly against my own point on religion) that current avenues open to mentally unhealthy individuals rarely count as treatment.

        I would also propose that a proper handling of mental health has the potential to reduce the negative effects of both religious and authoritarian tendencies.

        I mean mental health here, not just for those we consider to be sick, but for all of us as a mental “immune” system to guard against propaganda and inflammatory personalities.