Re:The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder
by yetanotherphd on Sunday December 15, 2013 @02:31PM
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"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.
Re:The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder
by duaneb on Sunday December 15, 2013 @03:37PM
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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.
"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.