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HereSince1628

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4. Self-defence and vengeful retribution are commonly associated with violence...

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 12:28 PM

Mar 2013

Gregarious primates, including humans, have a strong sense of what is 'fair play'. Abuses to fairness lead to resentment.

Stepping away from the Lanza and the Newtown massacre, I'm generally of the opinion that one or more mental illnesses doesn't make a person nonhuman. Outside of the limitations of the dysfunction and distress caused by their disorders, persons with mental illness have, in general, the potential to express all human attributes.

I'm pretty certain that most people with mental illness, by and large, function much as other people. As a group, people with mental illness are capable of feeling, thinking, and behaving in ways exactly identical to the 'mentally well'. So, imo, mentally ill people are also capable of all the good things, socially acceptable things as well as bad things, criminal things.

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Re: CT document release--Lanza had a book on Autism and a book on Aspergers in his room [View all] HereSince1628 Mar 2013 OP

So sad, really. cbayer Mar 2013 #1

It's all enigmatic. We've no confirmation re his mental health or treatment... HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #2

While there is not increased risk with Asperger's, isn't there increased risk cbayer Mar 2013 #3

Self-defence and vengeful retribution are commonly associated with violence... HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #4

I agree with you and did not wish to imply otherwise. cbayer Mar 2013 #5

I don't mean to suggest otherwise. I think many people see a mental illness as fully defining HereSince1628 Mar 2013 #6