That's part of the definition of the word "contagion", the people who have the condition go on to cause it in others You shouldn't need a PhD in "the humanities" to understand shit like this but I guess a bachelor's in analytic philosophy trains you to stop understanding things
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most people also don't realize that social contagion isnt a bad thing. its just a thing that happens
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For anything that people aren't trying to stamp out as a disease they just don't use the word "contagion" No one has ever used the term "social contagion" for deciding to go to college or have kids because your friends are doing it
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i see we have reached the "that depends whether you treat this nominalization as a noun or a verb" stage of dipshittery
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Yeah. When I was a kid, people used to say “peer pressure” or “imitative behavior,” instead of choosing terms that make the phenomenon being discussed sound like a disease.
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