You may or may not be a wacko, but yeah, we have laws and you would be put in prison. Even Mongols had laws among themselves. Try killing the Khan and see how far that got you.
I think @nimelennar point is that people can do evil things with out being insane. In truth most insane people are relatively harmless.
Then again, what one considers clinically insane and what one describes as insane behavior are two different things as well. Deviating from social norms alone certainly doesn’t make one insane alone. And indeed when one does do that, it is usually harmless as well (i.e. a weird hair style or something.)
@nimelennar’s point, I think, is that crazy people are usually not dangerous, but they’re unfairly stigmatized as being so. True enough. But I would argue that most dangerous people are ipso facto crazy. (That’s what I meant by saying that it’s not a commutative property.)
Can I simply say “I think this shooter is/was mentally ill”? Is it the comparison itself which you find offensive?
Because if it is, then whether or not that comparison uses various words, which over time have occupied various locations on the euphemism treadmill, really does not make much difference.
Ah, geez, thanks! He and I had a PM going, but it seems to have disappeared (maybe because of the ban? that would be a glitch in the setup, in my opinion) so I forgot which major city it was, but at least I did remember that your’s was…well, you haven’t mentioned it here, so I won’t, but I do remember it wasn’t Munich itself.
