I wonder about that too, and then I hear about stories like my cousin’s coworker. Her drug addict brother stole her credit card, and among other things, spent a few hundred bucks on trans porn. He’s 22, I guess.
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Clearly the porn industry isn’t bribing her as heartily as the NRA is. I think that was her public call for more porn moulah.
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How can a young person in America in 2018 not be aware that Pornhub exists?!?! Doesn’t matter what you want to watch, they have it.
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There’s a lot of questions raised by this anecdote, from what I understand.
Namely, what does the guy’s girlfriend think about all of this?
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Well she is a “representative.”
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What grocery store does she shop at?
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I blame all that racy swing music!
Damn that Hut Sut song!
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Porn: School shootings are not an after effect of money shots.
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Throwing out really bad red herrings isn’t helping anyone with anything 
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Was she elected to help? What is this… help… you speak of?
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Given how prone to total hypocrisy GOPers tend to be, something tells me she’s a FIEND for it.
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Oh it’s a kind of porn alright.
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Or starred in some, way back when. I’m going to leave that search to others.
Can you explain to me in what way mental illness is a cause of school shootings? Just to warn you, i’ll be expecting diagnoses and peer-reviewed papers.
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That’s going to be tough, as I am without peers.
How about instead I say that, of the things she listed, mental illness seems (to me, at least) most likely to be linked to the desire to end the lives of a bunch of children that you don’t know, and cause horrible pain to their families.
If it was mentally sound to shoot a bunch of strangers, then the collective wouldn’t react so negatively every time it happened. Instead, there would be celebrations and dancing (and more shootings) in the streets.
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Well that’s all peachy keen that you feel that way, but actual studies show that mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than perpetrators. And perpetuating the idea that the anger and entitlement that drives these assholes is a form of mental illness just hurts those who are already suffering. I’m pretty willing to share with people that i’m bi-polar, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe for me to do so.
This is nonsense. Is every person who commits domestic violence mentally ill? If so: which illness? I don’t think that anybody trained in the study of the mind would answer yes to the first question, but that doesn’t mean we celebrate domestic violence.
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As a wise man once said; there’s a difference between being mentally ill and being an asshole.
The cowardly people who kill others so indiscriminately just because society has made it so easy for them to (or just “because they can”) are assholes.
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Dear Penthouse Forum,
I am a freshman at a large Midwestern university. You probably won’t believe this happened, but…
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This is a strange line of thought to me. We’re saying that the extremely small percentage of the population who commit mass murder are just “assholes,” and have no form of mental illness whatsoever? This is absolutely no comment on the vast majority of people who have mental illness and are not violent, but geez, it’s pretty obvious that sometimes mental illness leads to this kind of thing.
What kind, Auld asked? Many are reported on to have suffered from extreme depression. Does this mean all people who have depression are going to go on a murder spree? Does it mean people with depression are more likely to murder? No, and no. But that doesn’t mean in some circumstances, people with extreme depression decide to make their suicide a murder-suicide. The fact that these type of spree killings aren’t more associated with acts of suicide, versus homicide, is something I think is pretty stupid. These people are not “just assholes,” I know a ton of assholes (and some folks would probably consider me one), and they don’t tend to go on murder sprees.
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