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Response to Nostradammit (Reply #15)

Sat Jul 21, 2012, 06:20 AM

17. The definition of sane is fuzzy at best

Last edited Sat Jul 21, 2012, 06:21 AM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

There are levels of insanity too.. All the way from the relatively harmless ones who talk to themselves as they wander through society, to the ones who may think they are Jesus-reincarnate, to the ones who feign "insanity" to allow themselves to indulge in evil.

Legal insanity tends to veer off into "he/she did not know what they were doing..they did not know right from wrong".

Once can be "insane"/mentally ill/disturbed and still know what you are doing is wrong.

In cases like this, the result is always the same. Dead people are still dead, and the shooter's motive becomes the benchmark of discussion. After the photos of the dead, and the interviews with bereaved family members have all blurred into one long sad, and familiar, story, ALL the focus goes to the one person who sought to garner attention.

Until the next one..and there will always be a next one.

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