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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
It isn't ignorance it is a difference of opinion. I really don't think that people with mental illness are helpless, I still believe that there is an element of free will to actually receive treatment, to say that there isn't any free will left is a misnomer. I have experience with mental illness, both from a family, personal and professional standpoint by the way, I have a solid understanding of the impact that it can have on the individual - I will say however that people always have a semblance of free will regardless of mental illness. It may be more difficult but people have a choice to pick up the phone, to talk to someone, to get help - to say that someone doesn't have a choice in the matter is in my opinion at least incorrect. People aren't helpless to the mental illness - free will is the essence of being human and I don't think that is lost.
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Yet you completely ignore the chemical and biological factors behind mental illness. Do you seriously go up to someone with Parkinson's and say "Quit twitching, you ####ing #####. You have the free will not to?" How about a schizophrenic. "Hey, dumbass, you're only have frightening hallucinations because you're letting it happen to you."
You can call it a difference of opinion, but yours is anecdotal, and generally refuted by science, thus ignorant.