What's /sci/'s view on antidepressants?
I was thinking about this. Antidepressants definitely make people happier, sure. But do they increase the survival chances of one's genes, or do they maybe decrease them? I've had friends whose parents took antidepressants, and the kids ended up depressed, lost, questioning reality, probably because they didn't have strong moral guidance as children, because their parents were drugged up zombies (and yes these drugs do turn you into a zombie, I know from experience).
Remember that the only outcome that scientists will be checking for is "happiness", or your "functioning" in society. They don't give a fuck whether you spread your genes or not. But YOUR priority IS to spread your genes (that's the priority for every organism on the planet).
Think about a criminal, someone like El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord. He didn't "function" in society, because he went outside of the bounds of society's laws. He ended up having a lot of children, between 11 and 15 according to different websites. So he definitely did fulfil his priority of spreading his genes.
>TLDR
Maybe antidepressants aren't actually in the patient's interest. The health systems loves them because they turn you into a "functioning" member of society (you work a job, you pay taxes, you're generating money for the government, and you'll be generating profits for Walmart when you do your weekly shopping, etc.). Maybe antidepressants are pushed because they're in SOCIETY'S interest, not yours.
That is, perhaps antidepressants are a tool of exploitation. What do you think, /sci/?
I was thinking about this. Antidepressants definitely make people happier, sure. But do they increase the survival chances of one's genes, or do they maybe decrease them? I've had friends whose parents took antidepressants, and the kids ended up depressed, lost, questioning reality, probably because they didn't have strong moral guidance as children, because their parents were drugged up zombies (and yes these drugs do turn you into a zombie, I know from experience).
Remember that the only outcome that scientists will be checking for is "happiness", or your "functioning" in society. They don't give a fuck whether you spread your genes or not. But YOUR priority IS to spread your genes (that's the priority for every organism on the planet).
Think about a criminal, someone like El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord. He didn't "function" in society, because he went outside of the bounds of society's laws. He ended up having a lot of children, between 11 and 15 according to different websites. So he definitely did fulfil his priority of spreading his genes.
>TLDR
Maybe antidepressants aren't actually in the patient's interest. The health systems loves them because they turn you into a "functioning" member of society (you work a job, you pay taxes, you're generating money for the government, and you'll be generating profits for Walmart when you do your weekly shopping, etc.). Maybe antidepressants are pushed because they're in SOCIETY'S interest, not yours.
That is, perhaps antidepressants are a tool of exploitation. What do you think, /sci/?
