> Insanity is not comparable to languages or beliefs, they are severe dysfunctions, some or many of them genetically linked. I don't know man, I'm not exactly

> Insanity is not comparable to languages or beliefs, they are severe dysfunctions, some or many of them genetically linked. I don't know man, I'm not exactly for the idea that insanity is a "social construct", but after reading this paper (http://hci.ucsd.edu/102b/readings/WeirdestPeople.pdf http://hci.ucsd.edu/102b/readings/WeirdestPeople.pdf only the first two pages are the actual paper), I'd say that a lot of behavior in different cultures would be legimitately called "insane" in ours. And besides that paper, there's also this meme flying around that "schizophrenics used to be shamans", although I don't know how believable that is. Anyway, my point being, even insanity isn't exactly definable. Although I do agree stuff like a rabies infection, extremely severe aggressive and psychotic disorders would likely be considered "insane" in all cultures.