|dev|null wrote on Sep 30
th, 2014 at 10:36am:
Soren wrote on Sep 29
th, 2014 at 1:53pm:
|dev|null wrote on Sep 25
th, 2014 at 1:39pm:
Islamophobic voice in the crying in the wilderness
Why can’t people hate or fear anything they want?
They can but do you really recommend that they give into their fears and act on their hatreds?
I thought you were a Psychiatrist? Surely you should be advising them to face them head on and understand how silly they really are?
You must be able to express what bothers you. That is a necessary step. Repression will make you sick.
Act on hatred - you are implying that the acting can only mean violence. This is not correct. Most people simply avoid things they hate or dislike or try to change the person whom they hate or fear - or change themselves and their perceptions of what they fear. A well-adjusted person is able to control his impulses. That is what you learn as you grow up. Even among very small children, violent impulses are rare. In our society violence is completely devalued, compared to earlier times or tribal societies and societies where women are separated and treated as men’s chattels. Women’s liberation had a tremendous taming effect on men because sex became pretty readily and safely available. A lot of violence is the return, the outlet, of the repressed sexual urge.
People hate and fear all sorts of things. You need to speak about it and see whether your hatred or fear is well founded or not, whether your perception is the problem or whether what you fear is really dangerous to you.
There is nothing clinical about opposing or disagreeing with an ideology, a political or philosophical doctrine. Homophobia, islamophobia are not real phobias, not clinically recognised terms. Nobody who is completely rejecting Christianity is contemplating the harming of Christians. Those who might are seen as either ill or criminal. The same goes for those who completely reject Islam, homosexual conduct, evolution or atheism - they are not thinking of harming anyone and those who may be are regarded as ill or criminal.
As we are paifully aware, those who completely reject Islam in muslim majority countries are often risking their lives by such a rejection. Sometimes the perpetrators of such violence are regarded as criminal but too often they are not. They are almost never regarded as ill, certainly not by their muslim compatriots.
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