Active shooter in NZ

[Duty]

Mentally healthy people go on killing sprees all the time. Just because you're disturbed doesn't make you a mental health expert.

A mental disorder, also called a mental illness[2] or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.[3] Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as a single episode. Many disorders have been described, with signs and symptoms that vary widely between specific disorders.[4][5] Such disorders may be diagnosed by a mental health professional.

This is hugely inadequate/inaccurate/problematic by my mind. If somebody commits a crime, and is caught and punished for it, that causes significant distress and impairment of personal functioning therefore mentally ill. If you give up smoking cold turkey you're mentally ill if it causes distress. If a spouse is unfaithful and get's away with it, with no feelings of remorse/guilt or projected thoughts of infidelity, then no problem. If they do have such feelings then they do have a mental illness however; likewise if they are busted by their spouse who is livid about it, but only after they've found out. If they're not angry at the infidelity, again, no mental illness. There are about a gazillion other examples I estimate. 

I prefer this definition: Any thought or behaviour which the majority of local society considers to be maladaptive.

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3. I knew Trump would be half assed about it.

All he said in the aftermath of the last mass shooting in his own country was "It's a shame" so his silence on this one seems relatively accurate and consistent with form.