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Do you have to be mentally ill to kill people?
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October 2nd, 2015
The news reports for the killings in Oregon have described the shooter as ‘mentally ill’ and ‘close to his mother’. The shootings in Connecticut also noted that the kid who did the shooting was mentally ill.
The suggestion is that being mentally ill in some way explains (or maybe excuses?) why the killer did the deed.
My questions:
- do non-mentally-ill (or perhaps, rational) people ever kill?
- does killing people (especially a mass killing) by definition make you mentally ill?
- is labelling someone ‘mentally ill’ in this context masking a deeper societal problem?
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