>If one person murders another because of their delusions, it's a crime and a medical failure. If an entire country declares war on another for similar reasons

>If one person murders another because of their delusions, it's a crime and a medical failure. If an entire country declares war on another for similar reasons we assume we're in the realm of politics and history, not mass mental illness. That's because mental illness diagnosis is subjective and authoritarian. For example, runaway slaves in the US were diagnosed with drapetomania, and anti-war acitivists who smoked marijuana were diagnosed with schizophrenia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania