>>12133451Stress and trauma are contributing factors, as are epigenetic effects. It also depends on the disorder: Worldwide and over multiple generations, the incidence of schizophrenia has very little correlation with such factors, and is heritable at the level of nuclear DNA via multiple genes in combination, like almost all congenital disorders of permanently disabling severity with an onset before maturity.
>>12133458You're not wrong about the value of outliers when it comes to curbing the enthusiastic madness of crowds & such, though that does not by itself invalidate the very idea of formulating diagnostic criteria at the extremes of those. Are depression meds overprescribed? You bet. But it's hardly the only technology subject to abuse, or fraught with difficulties in making that very distinction.
>>12133535>Selection acts upon social populations via GROUP-LEVEL SELECTION and kinship genetics.Not really, since if selection didn't act on the individual level there would be no group-level selection in addition to it.
>>12133835>muh blank slate So much binary thinking in this thread.
>>12133909>muh burden on societyWhat's beneath criticism becomes the subject of diagnosis almost by definition. Thus you are a burden easily borne.
