PeonForHer -> RE: How To Lie Like A Feminist (9/15/2010 11:32:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: COINT Then they are to carry on with 'the mission' (life) until such time treatment is available. I've been to the 'stan 4 times, and no, fire crackers don't freak me out. PTSD is over played, they shouldhave a equivalent for combat stress reaction, for abuse in the civi world. PTSD was seriously underplayed in my father's case when he was discovered still to be suffering from it ten years after the Harrods IRA bomb incident, during which he was injured and his colleague and good friend in the police was killed. As I understand it, the rates of depression, and suicide, amongst ex-military people is huge. PTSD of one sort or another is bound to be involved in that, I'd have thought. Yes, I certainly agree that there should be a great deal more done for them. On something of a side note, and not particularly addressed to you, CO1NT . . . I don't think I'd even bother to engage again in a debate about 'which group in society deserves more concern'. It's a bogus argument. It isn't, or rather shouldn't be, how our thinking should even begin to work. Firstly, we're perfectly wealthy enough as nations to be able to afford the appropriate care for ex soldiers, as well as both genders who have been battered by their partners. Secondly, people tend to speak about compassion, concern and care as though the more those 'quantities' are given to X means the less must be given to Y. This is crap. Thirdly, I always, always, look around for any group in society that stands to benefit from conflict between two other groups. In general, whenever I see hostility between two groups who are the bottom of the social pile, I don't have to look hard to find people at the top of the pile who have good reason to be grateful for that hostility.
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