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Originally Posted by raveneye
Think of it this way: it motivates a lot of people to act in extremely drastic ways, such as committing suicide.
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That's quite a stretch. By that logic, one could argue that being mugged or raped motivates people to act in extreme ways as well.
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Originally Posted by raveneye
Statistically, there's no difference between these two. If there is a correlation, then both are true.
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The question is more about whether or not it's a good idea to make that connection in our minds. Just because there's a correlation doesn't mean that there's causation. You agreed yourself that depression doesn't cause creativity. So if depression could somehow be cured, it would not necessarily mean that any correlation between it and creativity would end creativity in the formerly depressed individuals.
Do you really think that depression is something so essential to the human condition that relieving it (if we could) would make us less human? Or do you just think that there would be less creativity in the world if there were no depression?