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It's not a offensive to portray objective reality. People can and often do overreact and fake symptoms. This is just how it is. Why would that offend anyone?

The alternative to this is burying your head in the sand and saying we should take everyone at their word. This would result in a WORSE outcome for people that actually have the issues you're so worried about because the data would be skewed.

Maybe you ought to do the thinking, instead of emotionally reacting?



Let's do some thinking: collectively, we don't know enough about CFS or the human brain to make definitive statements like 'a large number are faking it.' You've confused your emotions for logic.


Yes please do some thinking. There's a condition called Factitious disorder and then there's also anxiety based hypochondria bud.

You're making an objectively FALSE statement. There is ZERO possibility that there's no person in the world faking CFS.

Thanks for the laugh. It's hilarious that you tried to accuse me of an emotional argument.

You can drop the strawman bullshit as well. I never gave a number on how many people are faking it or just being hypochondriacs.


Nowhere does my comment state that no one is faking. You've simply left reality in favor of a fantasy.

This is what I said:

> collectively, we don't know enough about CFS or the human brain to make definitive statements like 'a large number are faking it.'

This is what it means:

We don't know enough to quantify the ratio of fakers.

'A large number are faking it' is a type of quantification: a ratio. In this case, a descriptive ratio that uses the words "large number" instead of literal numbers.


... while accusing others of confusing their emotions for logic.


Explain. Are you trying to make an objectively false statement that there's not one person on Earth faking a disease like CFS?

You do realize there's an actual mental disorder where people fake being sick right?

The only person confused here seems to be you.




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