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Aella
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Ok i want to tease out a specific thing - there's a phenomenon i wish i had a term for, but it's where "when you place intense social judgment on a thing, this increases the likelihood that the only participation of that thing will be negative." For example, stigma against-
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@Aella_Girl
People generally view self harm as a "very bad" thing that they will try to help you stop if they find out you do it. Can someone explain to me why it's bad? If it's done safely, with no lasting damage, and is an effective method of stress relief, why is it so bad?
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
prostitution means that most of the people who go into prostitution have to eschew society's blessing, and people who eschew society's blessing probably already have a lot of other things wrong with them, so we end up with "prostitution = desperate drug addicts." My question is,
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is this phenomenon at play with self harm? Like, is the intense social stigma against self harm causing a similar association, where the only people who finally go do the self harm end up doing it irresponsibly, unsafely, and out of desperation?
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