Don't flame me but I was listening to Bill O a few minutes ago. He was talking about the shooting at Virginia Tech, and framed the question as one of "mental illness" or evil.
I decided I wasn't interested in hearing his tirade about how the secular humanists have ruined our country (again!? LOL), but I am interested in hearing what all the MTs think.
Are some people inherently "evil"? Or are evil behaviors symptoms of a mental disorder and an inability to think clearly or rationally?
I tend to believe that most actions like the events of this week are symptoms of illness. Not in the sense of excusing someone for doing something really awful, but in the sense of understanding why something happens. And, if this young man had received mental health services in HS, would the events of this week been different?
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