Post #UCSB massacre, fully expecting another round of media lazily conflating "mental illness" with "evil"
@ThaddeusRussell "Evil" annoys me more insofar as it connotes some supernatural provenance for the bad act in question...
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@mtracey Definitely. But "mental illness" has often been defined to include dissent or noncomformity. -
@ThaddeusRussell Indisputably true. Some conditions can be validly classified as "mental illnesses" tho. Whereas "evil" is inherently bogus
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