(October 5, 2015 at 5:26 pm)KUSA Wrote: So you think all these mass shooters are sane? What the hell?
I'm saying that while they may be emotionally unstable, reckless, attention-seeking, hateful, spiteful, angry, and trying to make a point:
They're not insane. Losing your ability to REASON is quite a different animal from the above selection of reasons that people go on mass shooting sprees.
The closes you'll get with the insane doing such a thing... necessarily takes delusion, mania, and a near-miraculous ability to navigate a world that is piecemeal around them.
That isn't to say that part of the reason someone may go on a shooting spree can't be delusion, or mania, or only a marginal tidbit of insanity...
But, UNLESS in the person's roughly immediate vicinity: it certainly cannot be the forefront facet of the psychological conditions necessary for a mass-shooting (of which there are NO necessary psychological conditions whatsoever). A completely emotionally stable, cautious and calculating, not-out-for anything, kind, caring person without a single shred of insanity for their actions filled with good humor and a dash of mercy....
Can also be a mass shooter (though, that's also usually paired with religious fervor (a strong learned belief is not delusional, unless one has had ample evidence to the contrary and does not recognize that in the face of their belief (belief in the face of incredible levels of countering evidence from sources that a person otherwise trusts to be true))).
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
