but we all gotta be respected enough to live at the very least, even when expectations have to change, unless you want dystopia — Enrique
The strong can wipe out the weak anytime they want to, and it will just make them stronger. This is the law of the universe, which supersedes all human laws.
A strong person does not need to respect a weak person. It's the weak person that should be respecting the strong person. But nowadays the weak are all hoarding together and trying to take out the strong. Which is stupid because it wont work, it will just make them weaker. — hope
so there is no such thing as a strong or weak individual. "Strong" is just a bigger mob. — Enrique
Abstract models often seem like 'babble' to people who prefer a more direct and practical approach. — hope
Only thing you can do nowadays is to play the victim like everyone else. Otherwise you will be lynched as a "racist". — hope
stigma of mental unhealth — god must be atheist
I more-or-less agree, except that if someone is described that he did something wrong (morally or socially) because of mental disease, we tend to forgive him or her. If someone does something evil without the stigmatizing forgiveness that comes along with mental disease, then we are harsher on the perpetrator.People claim to accept mental illness but then if a guy talks to a girl in the wrong way everyone calls him a creep. So much for accepting mental illness. We seem to have zero acceptance of stupidity or of evil, and often blame mental illness on those things so we can attack it without feeling guilty. — hope
Lots of armchair athletes here — jgill
You’d better be careful. Before you know it, you may find yourself being treated as the next dinosaur whom time has passed by. Foucault would have a field day providing a genealogical analysis both of the ‘reasons’ behind the change in values at the Olympics and your moralistic outrage ar those who dont follow the new orthodoxy . It sounds like you’ve latched onto the emancipatory version of critical theory but haven’t yet made your way into thoroughgoing postmodern territory — Joshs
a strong person does not need to respect a weak person. It's the weak person that should be respecting the strong person. But nowadays the weak are all hoarding together and trying — hope
strong are absolutely charged with respecting and caring for the weak. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
She said in morning practice that she had a little bit of the twisties. The twisties are a mysterious phenomenon -- suddenly a gymnast is no longer able to do a twisting skill she's done thousands of times before. Your body just won't cooperate, your brain loses track of where you are in the air. You find out where the ground is when you slam into it.
Coming back to Simone: he or she (I follow sports so little I don't even know his or her gender, race, or citizenship) is mentally ill — god must be atheist
This is is the first thread I’ve started in months! — Leghorn
If your auto mechanic says don't drive your car until you get it fixed, are you gong to pay attention to the warning? — tim wood
Three things (at least, no doubt many more but at least these three) Simone may be taken to be an expert on, herself, her gymnastics, and what it takes to win. — tim wood
Her courage was in revealing her mental health issues because those suffering are often condemned in public as being of weak character — Hanover
your position, if it's truly not racist and not dismissive of mental health issues, needs to be restated because you do come off very poorly in this thread — Hanover
She is a darling because she dared to quit; she would be a darling if she continued and she did not quit — god must be atheist
Today there is an appreciation that one’s mental and physical well-being is more important than winning at any cost. This reduces the focus on competition and redirects it toward a more balanced concept of excellence. — Joshs
But come. Why do you believe that a very accomplished gymnast, who has won many medals already, should have participated and attempted to win more? — Ciceronianus the White
The idea that people should put their lives, physical or mental health or well being on the line in order to engage successfully in athletics is a curious one. — Ciceronianus the White
In a given context, maybe! Maybe a little more respect for content, subject matter and the discussion next time?If I’m wrong about one thing, I must be wrong in everything? — Leghorn
I am not saying she is brave to withdraw, merely pragmatic. — Book273
If I say Claire is an accomplished swimmer is that not enough? — Book273
Psychotherapy is a specialty. Some psychotherapists are psychologists, if they have a degree in psychology. But some psychiatrists are psychotherapists too, and no psychiatrist has a degree in psychology, unless he or she got one incidentally. And some nurses and social workers. And in the case of all these, none are psychotherapists without additional work. Licensing and what you can legally call yourself differs in different places, but insurance companies pay the degrees. — tim wood
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