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• TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The point is more why are we treating the symptom rather than the disease.

  Hell yeah, great point

  People who take advantage of others are manipulators and by definition that’s anti-social. Why is the system so broken that we can’t imprison scammers?

  What the fuck, how is that your conclusion?

  The “disease” is the lack of safety nets- a lack of education, resources, opportunities. “Anti-social” is a copout term to justify the status quo- to pathologize what are ultimately systemic failures manifested in the behavior of individuals. The disease is capitalism, and imprisoning people for “anti-social” behaviors is absolutely the wrong answer.

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  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am a therapist and I meet diagnostic criteria for ASPD.

      The diagnosis itself exists to pathologize the individual to remove blame from the system that fosters this behavior.

      The DSM is a joke

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• earphone843@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Huh? We can imprison scammers.

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  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is it tho? Trump basically lied and committed fraud all the way to the presidency.

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    • ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well we do have laws against fraud, deceptive marketing, etc. It’s hard for me to imagine what we would be arresting someone for unless it were one of those already illegal acts.

      It’s nice to say it should be illegal to take advantage of someone, but who decides if that happened, and by what criteria?

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    • gibmiser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      People are OK with a system that gives them a chance at becoming rich, and so long as they are successful doing it, it doesn’t matter how they did it.

      Prosperity gospel. Money = good. By the transitive property if you get money you are doing “good”.

      It’s self serving broken logic.

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• hisao@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Being “social” often involves power dynamics games. Often that’s even part of the culture. Sometimes people who are not interested in that notice each other and proceed to their own comfy wavelength, but it’s not something I would expect in average “social group”.

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  • ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Teaching American exceptionalism for over a hundred years then over the past fifty defunding education systematically. The fact that the country was built on slavery then had Jim Crow officially until the 70s. Unofficially it’s still around. The red scare that has had people automatically reject social improvements if they benefit everyone. Zero-sum thinking.

      So many reasons Americans are taught to sociopaths. We could go on and on. Yet at least half of us don’t think like that. But we have no power.

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