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0 pointss1artibartfast4y ago0 comments

This is just semantics around the definition of mentally ill.

You can move away from it and ask what is unique about the mental state where someone wants to shoot children and follows through on it.

You can ask if this mental state is preventable.

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guerrilla4y ago· 2 in thread

Mental illness isn't about general states and conseqncues but suffering and disability to the patient, like all illness.

s1artibartfastOP4y ago

Semantics again. Who cares?

Don't call it mental illness then, but mental states, neuro architecture, chemical disfunction, or bad brains.

It is clear that healthy well adjusted people don't fixate on slaughtering children

guerrilla4y ago

"Semantics" Ueah the meaning of words is important becUse of the consequences. What we care about with mental illness is suffering because its good to reduce it. It's absolutely critical.

> It is clear that healthy well adjusted people don't fixate on slaughtering children

All the people who waged war and genocide throughout history have nothing to do with the suffering of the mentally ill due to their genetics , behavior and genrics.

Don't be so dismissive. It's very disrespectful.

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