In my experience force doesn’t work very well for actually treating people. It works well to protect society. And short holds can create a situation for someone needing help to seek it in the future (because they didn’t kill themselves or someone else.)
But as a means of getting people help that’s going to improve their mental capacity, it generally doesn’t help most people. It can help society and if it’s used as an alternative to prisons and jails, that’s an improvement.
My fear is that it will actually further stigmatize mental illness, and force people into the shadows. When using incentives could be a far superior option.
Plus, low income housing with a few staffed social workers is far cheaper for tax payers than prisons and jails.
Stress is the number one contributing factor to addiction. You know alcoholism is going up in much of the world due to climate change, and going up faster in parts of the world most affected?
Getting someone into housing is an incentive we haven’t tried. Okay, free housing if you get into treatment and take your meds? It reduces stress too, which makes treatment more likely to work. And demonstrates compassion, making therapeutic relationships easier to form and thus, makes treatment more likely to work.
Force doesn’t work. You destroy all trust in the therapupitic process before you even begin.
I hear you 100% and I think people are getting better about it generally . A lot of people in our community are very inclusive and accepting of differences. And I’m helping her feel more okay about it and accepting of social interactions just sometimes feeling awkward.
She has strategies to recognize people. My help is one. Another is clothing styles, gait, posture, etc.
And she does ask. It’s just socially awkward and disconnecting. And people often assume you don’t care if you meet them several times and don’t recognize them.
Again, I don’t think technology like this is good without serious protections in place.
My gf in particular probably wouldn’t use this. But I can see it being helpful for other people in similar circumstances.
And honestly I didn’t read the article. I figured they had it built into glasses like Google glass. Pulling out a phone to recognize people would be super awkward.
Yeah, my hope is that the researcher feels like I (and apparently you) do. And that her intent was exactly as you said.
But I wanted to point it out. Because it’s easy to commidify life when we swim in an environment that reduces everything to a commodity. And I felt it fair to remind people of compassion.
My girlfriend has facial ephasia. Basically her brain doesn’t easily break faces into the distinct parts the way most people do that allows for quick recognition.
She may as well be looking at butts with their lack of distinguishing features.
Not disagreeing with your point. The technology does not have adequate safeguards to prevent abuse by both individual and state actors. But it would legitimately help my gf feel less awkward socially.
The suffering climate change is causing is immense. To all life. Not just humans. And animals value living.
In other words, animal life is valuable in its own right. It doesn’t need to be equated to how their lives benefit us.
In fact, I think doing so can kill compassion. Animals are not a commodity here to benefit people and this sort of reduction of life to commodities for people to enjoy or exploit, stems largely from the same colonial capitalist mindset that is causing mass extinction in the first place.
So, Wargroove 2 has a few modes I’ve played in the last 24 hours that greatly increases the depth and replayability for me.
Played multiplayer with my kid and that’s good fun. Also there’s a whole rogue like subgame with character unlocks that are right up my alley.
So yeah, I’m sure I’ll get my $20 out of it. It does lock up, but infrequently. And I imagine they’ll fix it as soon as they can. Overall it runs really well though. Quick load times etc.