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By doing a lot more research into psychiatry and finding treatments for mental health issues that actually works.


It seems that you could say that about any socially undesirable behavior.


I agree, there is a problem with this. We've been there before: being gay was considered a sickness and/or a crime in most countries till recently, for example. But, medical science can adapt to changing social norms, it did before, and was hardly ever a blocker here - i can't recall if there was ever a point where medical science or healthcare industry insisted on labelling something a sickness when society or state claimed it wasn't.




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