Here's one take I've been sitting on for a while -- depression is a bias toward *stasis* and *inaction*, and people in our society therefore treat it as fundamentally disordered ("Nothing gets better if you just sit there and do nothing")
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One phenomenon depression has been linked to is "learned helplessness", that someone with an abusive childhood, for example, who learns that any positive action to try to change their situation will be punished, quite reasonably learns to give up and stop trying
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And, again, the idea that this is a diseased or disordered coping mechanism relies on the -- unproven, unevidenced -- assertion that to a first approximation this isn't just true for most people's lives Doing things only makes things worse
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I'm not totally sure. If I go out and blow up a bitcoin farm or whatever, my net contribution to fighting climate change will probably be positive if I take it offline for a few months vs doing nothing but existing. Even more if I inspire others to do the same.
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Even a small chance of success is still bigger than the likelihood of changing the curiosity and drive to action that's arguably the only part of human nature truly hard-coded in most people, that allows all our other variations.
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I lost the part of this thread where you talk about algal blooms and cancer but if we take "well human survival and continuity are good" off the table, as you do, where's the justification to call those things bad as opposed to just another manifestation of life?
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