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A comment on The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder. Parent comment

Re:The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder by duaneb on Sunday December 15, 2013 @01:36PM (#6910272)
Interestingly, while you are correct in my misunderstanding, I still have the same gripes. I personally take offense when someone attempts to illustrate their point with pejoratives rather than reason.
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Re:The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder by yetanotherphd on Sunday December 15, 2013 @02:31PM (#6910500)
"weak willed" may have negative connotations, but I can't think of a less loaded word that would express the poster's meaning better.

"suggestible" comes to mind, but I don't think this is really the same thing.

And if the poster really believes that the parents are weak willed, I don't think that saying so can be considered as failing to use reason. In fact censoring oneself to use adjectives that carry less negative connotations, is a violation of reason.

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Re:The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder by duaneb on Sunday December 15, 2013 @03:37PM (#6910752)
Simply observing that most parents don't research the medication they give to their children would suffice. I don't see any reason to attribute character weaknesses.
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