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Originally Posted by Boblobla
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.
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I think my biggest issue is you can point to mental illness of some type in every single type of violent crime.
Molested a kid - Oh, he's a pedophile, not his fault.
Killed someone to get a promotion - Oh, narcissistic personality disorder.. all he cares about is himself, not his fault.
Killed and ate someone to give it a try - Obviously a psychopath, not his fault.
Got dumped and kill your girlfriend as a result - Probably a combo of a sociopath and borderline personality disorder... again, out of their control.
That is where we are headed, and soon everyone will start getting free passes as a result. It shocked me that Luka Magnotta wasn't let off, when he had numerous documented disorders. Yet somehow Li got a pass.