• MTZ@lemmy.worldOP
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    21 hours ago

    I never thought about it but I had a friend many years back that went on a several months long crystal meth and heroin bender, fell into deep psychosis, was hospitalized, and got clean after a while. He never went back to “normal” and remained much, much more conservative, right wing, and libertarian than he was before he went on the bender. Before that he was basically a militant anarchist.

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      19 hours ago

      Fetterman became conservative after his stroke, too.

      I think it may be possible to damage the brain in a way that makes empathy harder.