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We now believe that this is not true. What about--yeah, it's not true.
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What about social deviants?
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Some people including the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz claim
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that when we label somebody as mentally ill this is not a medical decision.
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It's rather a social decision designed
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to ostracize people who deviate from society's norms,
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to ostracize them and rid them of moral agency.
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It's not that we disagree with them.
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It's not even that we see them as evil.
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Rather, we see them as sick
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and as such we don't even have to accord to them
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the respect that we accord to criminals.