Are you seriously saying that you think dysphoria - a mental dissatisfaction with one's healthy body - is best treated by major surgery on the body, causing potential infertility & loss of sexual function, and by taking untested drugs?? Rather than just dealing with the distress?
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Or, from "the other direction", someone who's been shot with a bullet through the leg and can no longer walk and is in constant pain is likely to become depressed Should we avoid treating their leg because that's treating the body and not the mind?
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now i'm having flashbacks to the horror of biomedical ethics and everyone just constantly conflating metaphysical/moral issues concerning what "kind" of condition something is with causal questions about how to create or remove it
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people are extremely dumb about this, it turns out
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