The sick ones among animals isolate themselves

[filthyrottendirty]

It's the same for humans, is it any wonder why I always want to be alone

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Isolated humans are not always the sick individuals, but rather it is the group that is ill and so you wish to escape their dysfunctional behaviour; similar to leaving an abusive family.

 

[meetapple]

Maybe it is the isolation that causes the sickness not the sicknees causing the isolation.

 

[domedune]

Maybe it is the isolation that causes the sickness not the sicknees causing the isolation.

Could be both, either or, or sick surroundings/family like @Sprite_Geist said.

For me, it's definitely my sickness + sick family. Isolation might be causing more sickness but I it's preferable to the alternatives.

 

[slyna]

Iam sickened by today's society and all their pity obsessions about bullshiyt

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Western culture loves to masquerade and pretend that our civilization looks after the weak, disadvantaged, and enfeebled. Anyone who has lived a day of their life with a disability or any sort of dehabilitating illness can smell the bullshit from a mile away.

There are countless posters on the streets and in train stations urging patrons to be kind to those with invisible disabilities, yet rarely is this preaching put into practice. Thousands, if not millions, of vunerable people are left to rot by society. Our inherent desire to be part of a tribe and embraced in one's community has been utterly thwarted by the concept of nuclear families and not in my back yard mindset.

Many people will desire human connection and love, only to be deprived of it because they are too ill to stay in school or employment, resulting in no money, no means of going out and meeting people, and undesirability in the eyes of one's healthy, youthful peers.

Isolation becomes a self fulfilling prophecy in these situations. A trap you can't escape. If you have no family you sink further down into this hole. One of the most heartbreaking things is being told to suck it up and endure solitude by individuals who have loving parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. They will never fathom what an orphaned or estranged person has to cope with.

There's loads of virtue signalling messaging out there, but very little in the lane of pragmatic help when it comes to the welfare of the sick and lonely. People simeltanously want us to be quiet and fade away into obscurity, while using us as pawns in their campaigns against the right to die movement or any sort of reform.

Everyone claims to care about vunerable people until we actually appear in their real lives rather than in vingettes on the TV.

 

[Makko]

Western culture loves to masquerade and pretend that our civilization looks after the weak, disadvantaged, and enfeebled. Anyone who has lived a day of their life with a disability or any sort of dehabilitating illness can smell the bullshit from a mile away.

There are countless posters on the streets and in train stations urging patrons to be kind to those with invisible disabilities, yet rarely is this preaching put into practice. Thousands, if not millions, of vunerable people are left to rot by society. Our inherent desire to be part of a tribe and embraced in one's community has been utterly thwarted by the concept of nuclear families and not in my back yard mindset.

Many people will desire human connection and love, only to be deprived of it because they are too ill to stay in school or employment, resulting in no money, no means of going out and meeting people, and undesirability in the eyes of one's healthy, youthful peers.

Isolation becomes a self fulfilling prophecy in these situations. A trap you can't escape. If you have no family you sink further down into this hole. One of the most heartbreaking things is being told to suck it up and endure solitude by individuals who have loving parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. They will never fathom what an orphaned or estranged person has to cope with.

There's loads of virtue signalling messaging out there, but very little in the lane of pragmatic help when it comes to the welfare of the sick and lonely. People simeltanously want us to be quiet and fade away into obscurity, while using us as pawns in their campaigns against the right to die movement or any sort of reform.

Everyone claims to care about vunerable people until we actually appear in their real lives rather than in vingettes on the TV.

Taking care of cripples is a lot of work for no reward. Nature is designed around the weak dying fast. Trying to defy nature won't make the weak die any less, it just makes the death slow and draws out the torture.

 

[meetapple]

Taking care of cripples is a lot of work for no reward. Nature is designed around the weak dying fast. Trying to defy nature won't make the weak die any less, it just makes the death slow and draws out the torture.

Medical science has greatly improved the lives of the sick and diseased. Should we just let people die out naturally as if we are social darwinists? This is what makes us different than other types of animals. Not all attempts to improve the quality of the lives of the "weak" are destined to fail.

 

[Makko]

Medical science has greatly improved the lives of the sick and diseased. Should we just let people die out naturally as if we are social darwinists? This is what makes us different than other types of animals. Not all attempts to improve the quality of the lives of the "weak" are destined to fail.

Medical science can't solve the social aspect of weakness, which is sort of what this thread is about.

 

[Marktheghost]

Yeah, in my case at least, it's the sick society that's caused my isolation, by ostracizing me, damaging my confidence around other people, and being the sort of people that I don't want to be around.

 

[FuneralCry]

I isolate myself and that is by choice. I see the world around me and others to be the problem rather than by myself. I see isolating myself from others as being good for myself as it means I am avoiding feelings of frustration that are brought about by spending time with others.

 

[Pure]

Taking care of cripples is a lot of work for no reward.

Not necessarily, Stephen Hawkings stated his disability is what allowed him to think about all his theories because there wasn't anything else he could do.

Physical disability doesn't mean mental retardation