05-25-2022, 10:43 AM
(05-25-2022, 10:33 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I'm not sure I'd believe that. Nothing is cheap or effective enough for us to just assume it would be granted to us. I mean, we're a country that spent generations incarcerating people for growing a plant.
Besides, doesn't mental health care only work on the people who are sane enough to seek it out and take it into consideration? I'm not sure why people are so sure some psychologist with a fancy schmancy degree can change anyone's mind these days.
Look at the whole covid thing. Medical professionals vouched for something that was offered for free and a lot of people were like...yeah, no thanks...not only is what you are offering not good, but it's actually bad. If this country offered free mental health counseling you'd see a few certain loudmouths warning their audience about how you're going to go there and get programmed and harmed and blah blah blah.
I'd say we're screwed on all this. Prove me wrong, society.
I haven't even googled this, but what do you think the odds are that there are people saying that school psychologists and child psychologists are sexually/socially grooming and/or otherwise harming kids?
Exactly.
These events are a reflection of us as a society and not the government/laws we establish.
No amount of government control can make us suddenly start caring or being more empathetic to those around us.
Quote:The decline of empathy in society has been observed for a while. A study of 14,000 American college students in 2011 found they exhibited empathy approximately 40% less than their peers in the 1980s. The fact that it might be a choice, made in the name of survival, makes it all the more disturbing.
https://theswaddle.com/is-the-world-becoming-less-empathetic-by-choice/
