Cool! I can sympathize with not wanting violence and mental illness insinuated to be linked. To paraphrase the 90s PSAs that I loved because they didn’t bully me like my teachers: Winners don’t disparage the mentall ill!
But to be completely up front, it stirs up a lot of negative feelings that someone could be more concerned about the language used to criticize an abusive teacher than the abuse itself.
I can’t speak for anyone but myself, but I sincerely apoligize if I gave the impression I think all violent people are mentally ill.
I simply wanted to convey that having had some negative life experiences, I’m at a point where the reason for violence doesn’t elicit any mercy or sympathy in the moment.
In the long run: get them treatment etc. In the short term… I’m glad to be an adult with the right to make myself safe however is needed, and to have a set of local laws and courts that respect that right.
