It’s WAY more complicated than that.
Again, (and repeatedly), Castro certainly fell into the territory I (and probably anybody who’s in agreement that we should’t obsess over him) consider ‘least likely to be redeemed’, and if somebody’s not willing to try, then of course there’s no progress to be made.
But again, it’s about us, and our reactions are part of OUR problem.
Maybe a video would help? It has links!
TED: Phillip Zimbardo - on the physcology of ‘evil’
I’d also argue that many things we call ‘mental illness’ are far from it, many are difficulties in coping in a world that honestly doesn’t make much sense. We’re not designed for this, we shouldn’t be trying to turn everybody into lowest-common-denominator clones. We’re creating depression and turning ADD from a different and useful set of mental abilities to something that must be ‘treated’ . . . so there’s layers of complexity there.
