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ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 7 months agoWe shouldn’t judge them for getting to this point, but we also shouldn’t just leave them be. People like the one in the screenshot are clearly in need of therapy.
We already saw the story of the guy who poisoned himself with sodium bromide at the “advice” of chatgpt. What kind of outward damage could someone who confides in a chatbot be capable of?
How is this unique? They write, “the bag is not the toy” on plastic bags. Are plastic bags evil?
People have a right to be rubes, people have a right to be ignorant, people have the right to be naive. We can do what we can to lead the people for the betterment of all but I dont think shaming them with ‘therapy’ does anything. We all need therapy. We all need support and guidance. There is nothing unique about these people putting their dick in the m&m minis tube.
I never implied that therapy is a shameful pursuit. And yeah, people have the right to do any legal activity in their private life, but—to take your m&ms analogy a step further—if you knew a guy was shoving a glass jar up his ass, don’t you think we should try to help him find safer ways of seeking pleasure, especially now that we’re armed with the knowledge that another guy posted his gruesome experience doing the same thing years ago?
My point is that if I was unknowingly on a slippery slope I would hope people would feel a sense of humanly duty to intervene. Or at the very least have a conversation about it.
Except you discount that you, personally, dont have the authority to do it. Then it just becomes some social stigma creating division.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At this point, I don’t think there’s enough competent therapists in the world to help everyone who could use some therapy. And that’s ignoring the bad therapists who can make things worse and the whole bit where therapists like to get paid but not everyone who needs them can pay them.