I’ll do the forum a favor of ignoring your snarky comments and simply comment on what I think the main issue is.
The original comment that I replied to posited that behavior was a product of bad upbringing, poor parenting or other environmental factors not including genetics or brain development. He was doing the equivelant of blaming the victim and seemingly ignoring decades of neuroscience and psychology to do so.
He attributed this position to Szasz.
Then someone posted the following:
“I took up the profession of psychiatry in part to combat the contention that abnormal behaviors are the products of abnormal brains.”
Does this mean that Szasz
a) doesn’t believe that abnormal behaviors exist, but believes that abnormal brains exist
b) believes that abnormal behaviors exist, but doesn’t think they are caused by abnormal brains
If his contention is A, it is a poor way of wording it/was interpreted incorrectly by the person who posted it in response to my comment.
If B, I think he is wrong and that shouldn’t be controversial.