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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
No, because being willfully stupid/ignorant is not a mental disorder. There are people out there who are just plain dumb.
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This is a bit of a paradox though. Evidence is clear that you can’t make someone more intelligent. So someone who is plain dumb isn’t willfully so.
Not a mental disorder, per say. Although, it’s important to recognize that paranoia and delusions are absolutely symptoms of many mental disorders, if not their own recognized disorders. Delusion is fundamentally, by definition, a mental disorder. As you don’t support a schizophrenic by mocking their delusion, an OCD patient for their silly behaviour, or an anxiety patient for their ridiculousness, it’s hard to justify the same for someone who clearly demonstrates some of those symptoms.
So, let the dummies be dumb. Or treat them like you would someone with delusional disorder. But slander and mocking is probably the least effective me method.