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Originally Posted by non sequitur
But the impact of a condition has nothing to do with whether it is a disease or not.
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Ding ding.
I think we're just getting caught up in what largely ends up being an inconsequential semantics argument. I suspect many of us agree here on this topic far more than we disagree. But I also think it's interesting that the word 'disease' for better or worse does appear to many to carry connotations about control and responsibility. I think what Archaea's voicing is that when some people think about disease, they think about an invasive pathogen, and what others are saying is that technically that's not all the word 'disease' means.
If that made any sense.
