"They are fucking dangerous." You're confusing a mental health diagnosis with a violent behavioural disorder. Psychopathy is a condition, not an illness - a condition you don't 'get better' from. Even so, people with psychopathy and its less severe cousin sociopathy don't go around committing random acts of violence in automatic pilot mode, as it were - such acts when they do occur require some sort of motivator, just as with everybody else. People with a mental health diagnosis, or an undiagnosed condition or illness, should not be assumed to be psychotic, that is; they should not be assumed to be, or confused for someone who is, detached from reality, antisocial, violent towards others, or unaware of their circumstances or the consequences of their actions. When people with a mental health diagnosis do present a level of risk of harm it is overwhelmingly more likely that they present a risk to themselves rather than others.mistermack wrote:Just as in the US, where the gun nut killed fifty, it doesn't matter in the slightest what this nutter shouted or thought.
Loonies are loonies. They are fucking dangerous, if they get hold of a gun. They will kill someone for the craziest of reasons. Because they are fucking mental.
An old fashioned and uninformed notion of 'madness' is not very helpful here - it's too easy, too simplistic. Most reasonable people would agree that nobody in their right mind could have done something like this, but then again we might also say that nobody in their right mind would vote to make Nigel Farage's wet dreams come true, but even if they do it doesn't mean they are 'mad' in any clinical sense.
