• owl_herd@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      6 days ago

      i dont disagree with the first part, but u know that having a mental disease isnt a wrong thing right? like good people can have mental issues? this isnt a mental disease, its desire to be evil. i dont like that socially mental disease can be 1:1 with being immoral or evil

      • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        Wanting to own billions isn’t necessarily evil. I’d say it’s actually pretty common to want to be a billionaire in our society; the desire to gain wealth is core to capitalism. They may not understand the consequences of it or be able to conceptualize of the people they’d hurt.

        Hypothetically, if we treated it as an illness (or rather a symptom) we could shift societal norms and rehabilitate people who express signs of trying to hoard wealth.

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        5 days ago

        I think there is still a mental disease aspect. Sociopathic or extremely narcissistic people can also seem evil, but at the end of the day they are still mental diseases. I would even go as far as to say that anyone who wants to be a billionaire is probably a mixture of sociopathy, narcissism and has some sort of addiction (ps: not an expert basing this only on common sense).

        I could perhaps say wanting to own billions is a symptom of multiple mental diseases.