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Yelling at in innocent person means you are acting out of a delusion of some kind, so it sounds as though you are saying it's only a matter of degree.
by gress 12y ago
Yelling at in innocent person means you are acting out of a delusion of some kind, so it sounds as though you are saying it's only a matter of degree.
- verbin217 12y agoNot necessarily, maybe I just like yelling at people. I needn't believe anything false for that to be true.
- gress 12y agoIf you say so, but from the outside this would be indistinguishable. Someone could attack with heavy artillery while shouting 'death to satan' because they like pretending to be a Satanist while not believing anything false. How would we know the difference?
- verbin217 12y agoThe top comment contrasts two ostensibly identical situations. In the first, a calm person becomes much angrier than would be expected. In the second, a person already suppressing otherwise unacceptable anger exploits an opportunity to express it for another plausible cause. The situations are externally indistinguishable but have very different implications about the persons mental state.