# Depressed people are expendable.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-people-are-expendable/595079>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 3, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-people-are-expendable/595079 "2011-09-03T17:57:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-people-are-expendable/595079/21 "2011-09-03T19:12:44Z")

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> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#):
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> Anything published in _Maclean’s_ is likely compromised. It is a Canadian publication. Canada, with its Scottish religious and philosophical heritage, used to be firm in the doctrines of Calvinism and the survival of the fittest. Today its moral core has been fatally decayed by social compassion and the socioethnic diversity that results.

OK, as someone of mixed Scots and _Deutscher_ descent, I gotta say: Looking to Great-British Calvinism as a basis for racial purity, that as a basis for a core morality, is ridiculous:

a) John Calvin was a Frenchman, your argument is invalid. If you base your chauvinism on the teachings of someone outside the race, you undercut your chauvinism with itself.  
b) Calvinism, while a distinct religion in its own right, always grafted itself onto Christianity, which is part of a Jewish humanistic tradition, & considers social compassion _to be_ its moral core. Read that again.  
c) Even the Nazis embraced a limited range of socioethnic diversity. Is a Thuringian really the same as a Swabian or a Hamburger? “Purity” is either too narrowly defined to gain power or simply drawing an arbitrary line around some groups of people and through others.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-people-are-expendable/595079/22 "2011-09-03T19:18:49Z")

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I have learned from bitter personal experience never to discuss the subject of depression with someone suffering from depression.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-people-are-expendable/595079/23 "2011-09-03T19:19:27Z")

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OK folks, I’ve had enough now. Can we close this thread?

When I get depressed, often the only thing that lifts the malaise is to say crazy, hurtful, trolling garbage that I desperately do _not_ believe in, and to keep arguing an untenable position until I am rolling around in my own bullshit and thoroughly befouled.

I’m climbing out of it now. Thank you all.

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**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-people-are-expendable/595079/24 "2011-09-03T19:20:42Z")

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I hope you feel better.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/depressed-people-are-expendable/595079/25 "2011-09-03T19:25:37Z")

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> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#):
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> OK folks, I’ve had enough now. Can we close this thread?
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> When I get depressed, often the only thing that lifts the malaise is to say crazy, hurtful, trolling garbage that I desperately do _not_ believe in, and to keep arguing an untenable position until I am rolling around in my own bullshit and thoroughly befouled.
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> I’m climbing out of it now. Thank you all.

Next time, take it to a professional therapist. Saying “crazy, hurtful, trolling garbage” on this message board will get you warned, and then banned, if it doesn’t stop.

Closing thread.

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