This is not the question. Public figures remain free to decline to engage with any one of their fans or their critics tho they might get criticism if they never engage with any of them. Stalking does not become OK if they decline to do this. https://twitter.com/gregblives/status/971136459674501120 …
I'm saying that if we agree the behaviour is bad, suspecting mental illness as the cause is mitigating rather than a tactic to stop people considering whether the behaviour has merit. You said ideas but it doesn't matter whether you agree with ideas or not. Its the behaviour.
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1/2 And, again, I don't remember at any point endorsing the behavior. Lot's of people engage in bad behavior, sometimes they don't realize/haven't thought about what ways this might be bad, later - in moments of reflection - the do realize, and they change their behavior.
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Nor am I claiming you did. I hope that will happen. We all hoped he'd lose interest eventually but it's been escalating for months. I'm going to leave it here tho. I hope it's illness and that he recovers from it with the support of his friends who are telling him this.
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I can always count on Helen to help restore my faith in human interaction, when it comes to mostly productive convos around points of disagreement.
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2/2 Malice or mental illness are two explanations as to the behavior. Mere human imperfection might be another. When a group of people quickly, and publicly, X, is behaving badly, it's mental illness, this often leads me to think of the rhetorical element of that.
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