The ‘cycle of violence’ dehumanizing cliches after #Jerusalem #massacre - analysis
Though Jerusalem was on the receiving end of #violence, the global community still turns the narrative against the victim state.
#BlameTheVictim #Antisemitism
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-729929

@pluralistic #MoralisingPathology is practice which failed for infectious disease and physical medicine.

Longer discussion: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/b4bbef90e8c60138513c002590d8e506

In part:

It fails for mental health and psychiatry. I suspect it fails at social levels as well: crime, politics, economics, culture. Not that bad things don’t happen (they do: they’re pathologies). But that treating them as moral failings … fails. Four thousand years of ethical medicine achieved little. Two hundred years of germ theory — and most of that by the very early 20th century — much. Public health measures account for about 85% of all longevity increase since 1850: solid waste disposal, sewage systems, clean water supplies, food purity laws, early vaccinations, and rudimentary safety practices. Antibiotics, imaging, organ transplants, cancer therapies, and other advanced treatments, comparatively little — expensive ineffectuality is the great shame of modern medicine. ...

Infectious disease made its breakthrough on the realisation that some infectious agent is transmitted via a vector to individuals exhibiting susceptibility within a population subject to therapies (there’s a great book coming out in the US this fall, The Rules of Contagion, (https://www.worldcat.org/title/the-rules-of-contagion/oclc/1184053568) by Adam Kucharski, addressing this). Each italicised term becomes a potential point of control and intervention. We can disrupt disease reservoirs, break chains of transmission, remove vectors, increase resistance (immunisation, nutrition, risk factors), provide supportive or immunological therapies (antibiotics, antivirals). Neither causes nor interventions are morally based.

Similar stories can be made for industrial hygiene, environmental regulation, weather forecasting, earthquakes, floods, climate, personal safety, or online security.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/b4bbef90e8c60138513c002590d8e506

This goes by numerous other names. #BlameTheVictim is probably most common.

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