[Miss Absynthe]

Originally Posted by Jonathan

Mental illness affects the minds of people suffering from them, hence the name. Conscious actions follow decisions. Decisions are mental processes. You're making it sound like it is some fantastic leap in logic to assume a connection between the result of a mental process and the mental processes that construct it. It's where the decisions come from in the first place!

The factor behind violence is the decision to enact it. Where do decisions come from?

Physical illness affects the minds of people suffering from them. People who aren't suffering from either a physical or a mental illness make bad decisions and commit poorly thought out conscious actions.

To say that the mind is only affected by mental illness is untrue, to say that only mental illness affects the mind is untrue.

I'm not "making it sound like it is some fantastic leap in logic...", it simply IS a mis-leap in logic.

Because an event occurred that is causing people to look for possible preventative measures to try to prevent re-occurrences. The deaths of a lot of children in one horrible tragedy apparently affects people. Crazy.

Because the people who were the victims this time were privileged.