How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)

Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017) by WalterBright on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:35AM (#25243821)

Please describe some choices that aren't really choices for a typical healthy person in a free country?

I can list a few:

1. having a baby is a choice

2. getting married is a choice

3. buying a house is a choice

4. buying snazzy furniture is a choice

5. buying a new car is a choice

6. buying lottery tickets is a choice

7. where you live is a choice

8. using drugs/alcohol is a choice

These are the kinds of chains that people forge on themselves.

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Re:How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017) by jgwil2 on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:17AM (#25255324)

7 and 8 are quite debatable. Where you live is limited by what you can afford, where you work, etc. Drug and alcohol dependence is considered to be an illness by medical doctors, and it's well-known to have strong genetic components.

1 is certainly a choice if people are given access to sex education and contraceptives; unfortunately that is not uniformly the case.

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