the issue of mental illness in context of mass shootings is complicated, despite shooters generally being thoroughly fucked in the head, by the commitment on the woke left that mental illness, being a term of sympathy, is reserved for victim-coded people
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like, when we see Patty Hearst holding her submachine gun, we don't think mentally ill. possibly to qualify mental illness we need to be able to tell ourselves it "just happened", and identifiably exogenous syndromes get disqualified?
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Without sounding like I’m navel gazing here, is it really brainwashing? Or is it a valid but socially unacceptable ideology?
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jeez, how do we even tease those apart? the procedure i Sabbah is reputed to have used, involving drugs and intentionally falsified reality, is identifiably brainwashing, but my impression is that all that has survived of that is the conclusions people were led to reach from it
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Mental illness can absolutely be induced deliberately and it sure as Hell can be aggravated deliberately. I have literally worked with people who had it done to them.
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