Radix wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:01 pm
TRobinson465 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 5:14 am
So are you saying mental disorders are all fake?
Not fake. This is a huge topic. Even among Western psychologists and psychiatrists there is an ongoing debate about what exactly mental health problems are and how to classify them. The matter is not as straightforward as with physical illnesses (although, debatably, even those are not so simple either).
Yes absolutely agree, its not as straightforward. neither was infectious illness before the discovery of germs. doesnt mean infectious illness wasnt a thing back when they didnt know what caused it. It was always a thing, they just didnt know the exact cause.
Autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD, ASPD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, down syndrome, split personality disorder, tourettes syndrome etc are all just the result of too much greed hatred or delusion? And not due to legitimate miswirings or development issues in the neurons of people's physical brains?
Radix wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:01 pm
Within Buddhism, there is no other way to explain these things, other than with kamma.
What you call "legitimate miswirings or development issues in the neurons of people's physical brains" is due to kamma.
(Or due to the workings of demons and such. But this is then still a matter of kamma.)
Do you want a Buddhist or a non-Buddhist explanation?
Yes, it is certainly due to kamma. that is the Buddhist explanation. As is physical illness, misfortune, where people are born and most aspects of people's lives. Same with people with ASPD, they have some kind of karma or residual habit so that theyre brains cant process empathy. Which is why its important (given the context of the OPs questoin) to distinguish between true sociopaths like Ted Bundy or (probably) Stalin, and evil non-sociopaths like Hitler. Saying everyone evil is a sociopath is like saying everyone academically smart is autistic. The default ad hominem evil person people liken people they dont like to when they have no actual logical argument, Adolf Hitler, was not even an actual sociopath.
Sociopathic and evil is not the same thing.