As is the case with death, just because there are unfortunate aspects to mental illness does not mean that every person always deserves to be delivered from it. With death, that some people could do that which makes them deserve to be killed, or to deserve death even though it would be immoral to murder them, does not change the fact that death would still have its unfortunate side: that anyone could deserve to die would only be the case if there are beings who practice evil, and this would be inherently tragic (evil, if it exists in any form, is that which should not be done, after all). Mental illnesses like depression and anxiety might be burdensome to an extreme degree at their worst, but there are cases where some people deserve them--just not for the reasons some people might think.
If someone develops, say, depression because they refuse to fully accept logical axioms and the fact that scientific paradigms, political ideologies, and religious philosophies are secondary to purely logical truths, they can only deserve whatever unease and insecurity they have brought on themselves for attempting to flee from reality. Someone who chooses not to understand or embrace the objective fact that only things which are logically provable can be known deserves whatever emotional suffering they bring upon themselves by this denial or avoidance of the only truths that do not hinge on other truths and that could not have been any other way no matter what. Since all people can directly know at least the basic necessity of logical axioms because the truth of everything they experience or think about already hinges on them (only things consistent with logical axioms can be true in the first place), and without any other person to prompt them to discover this, there is no excuse for overlooking them across an entire lifetime.
No, I am not saying people deserve an existential crisis or to lose the will to live if they recognize the gravity of something like epistemology and values without making any assumptions, not matter how relieving they would be. People who refuse to recognize the intrinsic veracity of logical axioms (such as how something which logically follows from another thing is true by necessity and cannot be uncertain, or how something must be true, or else it would be true that nothing is true, a self-defeating impossibility) or who make assumptions about other matters are at risk for existential depression if they were to have their illusions shattered, and since no one is justified in believing in untruths or assumptions, they cannot deserve to not have their peace destroyed.
This is comparable to how someone who is sexually promiscuous cannot deserve to not get STDs. It does not mean someone should try to give them an STD, and on Biblical standards, that would be unjust even though promiscuity is immoral. It does not mean someone who contracts such a physical condition should be fully dismissed as a person who is capable of fully aligning with reason. It is just that someone stupid enough to pursue physical or psychological pleasure or comfort over the necessary truths of reason, the absolute certainty they provide, and total acceptance that their whims do not make something true or morally permissible does deserve, in a sense, whatever STDs they naturally bring upon themselves, without anyone actually ensuring they receive them. The same is true of mental health decline. Irrationalists, when confronted, will go to desperate lengths to believe contradictions and assumptions instead of provable truths, and if they can only find psychological security outside of reason and rationalism, they do not deserve it at all.
Irrationalism is false by default, and it could not have been any other way. Regardless of whether anything, even logical truths themselves, have moral value, axioms and what follows from them is still true, and they are still the very core of all necessity and possibility. If logical truths have moral value, everyone who does not pursue them and at least understand the mere truth of axioms might have human rights, but they are still objectively inferior to those who choose rationality. If there is no such thing as moral value, no one has a right to anything, and their suffering is meaningless no matter its origin. There is simply no possible way for non-rationalists other than extremely young children or people with severe mental disorders (like a kind of psychosis or dissociation that actually interferes with discovering anything past the self-verifying nature of logical axioms and that one's own consciousness exists, not depression or anxiety) to not deserve literally whatever emotional or general psychological torment they bring upon themselves with their own irrationality.
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