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Drawing a line for mental health is hard. Where would you put it? Are religious people sane? Helicopter parents? Fanboys? People with fetishes? All that isn't e
by mhd 14y ago
Drawing a line for mental health is hard. Where would you put it? Are religious people sane? Helicopter parents? Fanboys? People with fetishes? All that isn't exactly completely reasonable. It's been said that sanity is more about consensus, than rationality.
Terrorism itself surely can be a sane act. Sanity has nothing to do with morality. Spreading terror to win your battles has been practised since antiquity, war paint, bag pipes, guerilla warfare. I would find it hard to draw the line right here. Then it wouldn't take much to say that by definition, every killer is insane.
- tokenizer 14y agoAbsolutely. Insanity would be considered in the medical sense in a court room, not in a societies preconceived notion of what insanity means. Webster defines it as, "a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as paranoid schizophrenia)". This means that they concluded that he committed the crime in a non disordered state, and his mental health did not point to any particular disorder. Just because someone holds extremely radical views (you mentioned religion, politics can also be included) doesn't mean someone is insane. However, I'm sure it was a very close call.