Minnesota Legislature Wants To Make TDS A Mental Illness

[Captain Caveman]

It's a solid theory. Decades ago, community was a group of people with whom you interacted face to face and social norms governed those interactions. You would not casually insult someone because you risked a fist to the face, and those around would not only refuse to step in and defend you, they would likely shake the other guy's hand for defending his honor. Today on the internet, everyone is "safe" behind anonymity and the only norms governing their interactions with other people are the restrictions the mechanisms facilitating those interactions have in place. No one is afraid they will be punched out, the worst that can happen is they get kicked off a certain thread or maybe banned from the place for a time, so they are free to say the worst, most childish, stupidest things you can imagine to and about other people, none of whom they have ever met.

The worst thing to imagine is that this somehow makes the people spouting the hate feel what, more mature, more adult, like better quality people?

I studied SIT (Tajfel & Turner, 1979) as part of an Open University course because I found it interesting and enlightening. So interesting if there's a specific group called TDS'ers.

 

[Mr Natural]

Trump Devotional Syndrome is already a mental illness.

 

[hadit]

Trump Devotional Syndrome is already a mental illness.

If you have to redefine it, you're too late to the party.

 

[d0gbreath]

Will penicillin cure Donorrhea?