ignayshus wrote:
I vote we change the title to Psychiatry is a Sham, because that's what we're debating.
Nobody is debating the value of Psychology except for maybe Aestu, but I think that was because he misread or miscomprehended what Cally wrote.
Actually, it looks like he doesn't even know the difference. Go read his idiocy again.
Psychiatry = a MD specialized in mental illness.
Psychology = the science of mind and behaviour.
Psychologist = a B.A. who applies findings from the field of psychology to therapies.
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During wartime we have conscripted random people and made them into soldiers. That is the point of boot camp. The military is an institution designed to make the weak into the strong through organization, indoctrination and authority.
If what you say is true we could not have raised armies of millions to fight in Korea or Vietnam nor tens of millions during WWII. Instead the military managed to get millions of feeble little people into uniform and shoot weapons.
If what you say is true, soldiers would not have such difficulty facing the true tests of character - making morally correct choices or dealing with the ambiguities of life. How many soldiers have the courage to answer tough questions about what they do? The military mythos is, like every other mythos, a product of weakness.
Blah blah blah. I'm not even from the same country as yours. Mine only ever conscripted during WW1 and WW2 (also, a whooping total of ~2300 in 1944 on top of 1.1 million volunteers).
WW1 and WW2 are two times when the shit hit the fan for the entire world. Otherwise, our force is 100% voluntary.