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Old 12-21-2012, 06:17 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by Jonathan View Post
Not everybody who is fucked up is going to kill little kids.
Everyone who kills little kids is fucked up.
Yeah, but "fucked up" =/= mentally ill.

Plenty of the people who don't hurt kill and maim their fellow human beings are mentally ill. So why don't those people go out and hurt every body?

Morality, empathy, and equality aren't limited to those who fall under the very messy definition of mentally or emotionally healthy. There are TONS of clinically depressed people, people with autism, people who suffer from PSTD or BPD even people who suffer from NPD who don't hurt others and aren't violent people. Why don't they go out and hurt.. they're mentally ill. I mean, isn't your whole point that these are the types of people who harm others?

It couldn't possibly be that people are influenced to treat others badly due to social inequalities... of course that means we'd actually have to make the effort to think about things deeply and accept that we're all capable of violence, that there's no magical thing that separates those people from us. Killers are humans with their own thoughts and motivations, and those things aren't controlled by mental illness.
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