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I don't really think this is a disagreement. "Sometimes you have to do something that's bad for you to keep something worse from happening." That's just called harm reduction. The stress is still bad but short term stress that ends long term stress can be a good trade when you don't have any other option.

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Yes, the correct response would be a behavioural adjusting of "not giving a damn" but our economic system discourages this, encouraging instead a play pretend of "unstressed" or meditate it away, aka learn to control your stress response system.

Or we could mass give out calming substances like weed or alcohol, but now we get to were we actually categorize permanent stress correctly. Its a mass applied substance problem, used to extract value from people.

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