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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I think that's an incredibility compassionate take, and for that I instantly and unconditionally love you.

I think compassionate people tend to trip on something, and I think you're tripping on it right now. I think other people trip in the opposite direction. Let me explain:

When you watch a nature doc where a lion hunts some poor baby antelope, maybe you're rooting for the antelope. It just wants to live. But the lion has to eat. It's incompatible. Just to be a dick I always say to my wife "think of the the baby lions that'll starve if the lion doesn't catch an antelope!".

They're fundamentally incompatible outcomes. You can accept that, choose who you're going to root for (or neither), remain empathetic to both. It isn't NECESSARY to reject empathy for one to root for the other. It's your mind playing a trick on you to save you from feeling bad for whoever gets screwed. You can sit with something bittersweet.

Is this putting ND on blast? YEP. Is it providing a vehicle for people being abused by people with ND to recognize that? YEP.

Fundamentally incompatible outcomes. It's completely reasonable to hold a position like "I hate that this puts ND on blast, but ultimately this leads to the better outcome". I think "this is the better outcome... And people with a legitimate disorder can eat shit" is not.