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Well first of all, can you narrow down in detail about what you mean by "SJW"? It's a term that's gotten so misused that its basically become a umbrella term for anyone on the left leaning political spectrum. Because if you really mean that broad demographic of people who at its core just wants people to be more often treated fairly as humans instead of presumptions based on color of skin or genitals and more diversity in media then my answer is a flat out no. Other people's equality does not mean a loss in your own. But if you're willing to describe a much more narrow group then I'd be open to discussion.

That depends on what "mental help" entails. What exactly qualifies the need for mental help?

You can't force someone to get mental help if they have an unpopular opinion or belief. Thought policing does not work.

Since you are broadly using SJW, let's use "anti-CIS" mentality as an example:

Hypothetical: A person, Anna, says to her friends, "I think that CIS people are scum and that they're responsible for all the problems in the world." Is Anna bigoted? Yes. Is her hatred of CIS people irrational, unjustifiable, and flat out stupid? Yes. Despite this, she still interacts with CIS people on a regular basis and her life functions normally. She's never comitted a crime, and has never wanted to actually harm anyone, CIS or otherwise. Does she need to take any medication, seek a mental health expert, or be institutionalized? I don't think so.

However, let's say that her bigotry DOES affect how she lives. Suppose that she fantasizes about killing CIS people all day. Suppose that it affects her abilities to eat, sleep, work, etc. She'll eventually hurt herself or someone because of that. Should she seek mental health? I would think so.

I think the issue with your question is that you are painting with a very broad brush. If you specify what you mean by "SJWs", I believe you might get a more definitive answer.

And MadDoc is correct. A big problem with the SJW term is that it is used ad nauseum and indiscriminately, just like the word "cuck". For example, a person who believes black people are treated more poorly than white people by the cops is considered an SJW. A person who believes that Gamergate is ridiculous is considered an SJW. The list can go on.

I think that most dogmatic extremists would benefit from visits to psychoterapeutists.

Doesn't matter is it's a "SJW" as you call them, a neo-nazi, or a religious fundamentalist.

I think the stereotypical essjaydoubleyews could use some anger management classes, and a good portion of the /pol/ regulars could use some therapy.
(This is coming someone whose currently going to a psychologist and a psychiatrist for high-functioning autism, depression and anxiety issues, so in no way is "I'm superior to everyone because I'm neutral" sort of thing.)

Pretty sure at this point we've all seen more outwardly mental examples of what you'd call sjws than what you'd call /pol/ users. So yeah, I'd prefer if they got treatment first.

Being an idiot who refuses to learn things doesn't count as a mental disorder, so the majority of them that'd be a no. Though i'm sure there are plenty with pre-exsisting conditions already such as "narcissism", "antisocial personality disorder", "anxiety", "depression", "obssessive compulsive disorder" "antisocial personality disorder", and other such disorders.

We COULD try giving them antipsychotics "major tranquilizers". Some of the SJW may be suffering from psychosis i.e disconnection from reality – if these pills "open up their eyes" then yeah there u go u know what the problem is.

Some of them are idiots, some of them are just hateful assholes but some are probably actually suffering from psychosis and in that case it wouldn't hurt to try something like Clozapine.

Leaving them alone is easier and though. I dunno.

I don't wanna come off like some sort of an asshole, and I am all for respecting other peoples' views and opinions, but medical science can help if they are willing to try.

The more extreme ones, like the ones that unironically want to kill all men would probably benefit from counseling. But on the other side of the coin, there's the extreme members of the alt-right who believe women are basically children, jews need to be gassed, and that whites are more evolved than other races, so they probably need counseling too.

I think some SJWs could actually tolerate more after counselling.

Being stupid isn't a psychological disorder

Let's see what these fucking dindus are up to.

Got any more examples? Because there have been multiple instances of the very same BLM starting shit at college campuses and burning down cities when one of their fellow thugs didn't get "justice". My whole point was that sjw types go out and raise hell far more often, not that /pol/ dindu nuffin, bruh.

Quantity wise, true, social justice nuts have a higher streak.

Quality wise, you don't exactly top a shooting. I guess you could count the Isla Vista shooting, as the shooter there did it to take revenge on all women, depending on if you expand /pol/ to also include anti-sjw nuts.

Quantity does not always lose to quality, especially when we can only think of 1 shooting (which you'll notice did not result in any hate crime or attempted murder charges because witnesses in court had so many different stories on whether or not they were militant white supremacists who came to slaughter all the blacks or whether they were a group of friends eating tacos who got ambushed and shot in self-defense) while this went on every weekend for a few months last year:

I might have agreed, but BLM can be attributed to at least one shooting themselves.

And this is on top of everything else.