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Is brutal violence against others not associated with mental disturbation?

• DanBC 10y ago
  Violent people are violent. They may also have mental illness, but usually it's coincidental. In this specific case there's no suggestion he had mental illness, and it's ignorant to suggest he did.
  • stagbeetle 10y ago
    Violent people aren't violent because they are violent. There is an underlying cause for someone to use force against another, especially when it is socially unacceptable. Perhaps it doesn't fit under the "common" mental illnesses of depression, anxiety, etc. but it lines up well with thought disorders. A sane and well person would not jeopardize themselves, and their fellow species.
    • dragonwriter 10y ago
      > A sane and well person would not jeopardize themselves, and their fellow species. Sane (by the usual definition, though it's possible you are using an unusual definition of your own) people jeopardize themselves to harm other members of the species all the time. In fact, societies tend to have organized groups of people who are expected to do this when the targets are enemies of the group, and who are honored for it; they also not infrequently honor people who independently do it against people theor society has decided are "the enemy".
• dragonwriter 10y ago
  There are some mental illnesses for which are associated with violence, but much violence is not associated with mental illness.