Benjamin Cain
May 15, 2023

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Right, and that's roughly the point I was making. But a psychiatrist would say that participation in this self-destructive system isn't mentally disordered because it's in line with our social norms, and thus you can flourish as a capitalist. That's the exact reasoning the psychiatrist Allen Frances uses in saying that Trump's not mentally disordered: Trump doesn't suffer from having his "personality" but rather flourishes because he's following social practices (individualism, selfishness, sexism, etc). As I argue elsewhere, Trump's antisocial disorder causes others to suffer, which is bad enough. You can be locked up on mental grounds if you're a danger to yourself or to others.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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