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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Just because people are looking at mental illness as an explanation for this guy's behaviour doesn't mean they're defending him. Setting emotions aside, understanding cause and effect is useful.
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While I am glad that mental illness is having increased awareness, it seems that every time someone does something that is messed up it is the first place people go. It should not be the case that is someone does something so heinous that we cannot fathom it that the assumption is always mental illness.
Understanding cause and effect is very useful but I do not think the responses to this thread would be the same if someone forced their way into the cockpit and flew the plane into a mountain.
I just dont think that mental illness needs to be the first place to go when someone commits a crime that is not understood. It may very well be that he is bi-polar and was having a manic episode. It could also be that he had a different medical issue and is a ####ing loser that wanted to take a bunch of people with him.