I've read a bunch of scientific papers, and I don't really get the issue with being concerned about potentially putting mentally-affecting chemicals in the drinking water? It feels really naive to just be fine with setting that precedent.
I mean, yes, but I think there's a difference between literally just food and actual mood stabilizers. Like, have you ever been on mood stabilizers? It's not like they're just a happy pill (which I still wouldn't be ok with) they do exactly what they say they do, they stabilize your mood, highs and lows. When you don't have bipolar disorder or something similar that just sucks because it just makes everything duller.
I'm very skeptical of that and would like to see the results replicated under controlled conditions, tbh. But I will grant that if that is the case then it's less bad, but I'm still extremely not hot on the idea of putting shit into the drinking water when we don't even understand how it functions. Like, psychiatry is still practically at a fuckin plague doctor level of understanding of how everything works, that's really not the time to start getting ambitious and putting shit in the water supply. It's arrogant, frankly.
I'm aware of that, that doesn't mean I'm actually in favor of the idea of fortifying it. Very keen difference between fluoridation, which to my understanding we actually understand the function of, and dumping mood stabilizers that we do not understand in any sense into the water supply.
I've read a bunch of scientific papers, and I don't really get the issue with being concerned about potentially putting mentally-affecting chemicals in the drinking water? It feels really naive to just be fine with setting that precedent.
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I mean, yes, but I think there's a difference between literally just food and actual mood stabilizers. Like, have you ever been on mood stabilizers? It's not like they're just a happy pill (which I still wouldn't be ok with) they do exactly what they say they do, they stabilize your mood, highs and lows. When you don't have bipolar disorder or something similar that just sucks because it just makes everything duller.
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I'm very skeptical of that and would like to see the results replicated under controlled conditions, tbh. But I will grant that if that is the case then it's less bad, but I'm still extremely not hot on the idea of putting shit into the drinking water when we don't even understand how it functions. Like, psychiatry is still practically at a fuckin plague doctor level of understanding of how everything works, that's really not the time to start getting ambitious and putting shit in the water supply. It's arrogant, frankly.
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I'm aware of that, that doesn't mean I'm actually in favor of the idea of fortifying it. Very keen difference between fluoridation, which to my understanding we actually understand the function of, and dumping mood stabilizers that we do not understand in any sense into the water supply.
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I don't just mean understanding the effects, I mean understanding the mechanism. There's a pretty real difference there, I think.
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