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Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance

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Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 1:58 pm
Lets talk about mentally ill children dancing.



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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 2:00 pm
This was probably mass hysteria and probably involved some kids, so . . . ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518
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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 2:06 pm
Maybe they could have a Saint Vitus Dance.



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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 3:58 pm
What about sixth grade boys? 

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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 5:50 pm
(February 13, 2018 at 11:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: What if that person has been, over his or her 40 years alive, a good person, but has a psychotic break, complete with hallucinations? Does that mean their crime arose out of innate badness?

As I said earlier, the exception is with legitimate insanity. What you describe above sounds like that.
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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 7:05 pm
(February 13, 2018 at 5:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(February 13, 2018 at 11:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: What if that person has been, over his or her 40 years alive, a good person, but has a psychotic break, complete with hallucinations? Does that mean their crime arose out of innate badness?

As I said earlier, the exception is with legitimate insanity. What you describe above sounds like that.

Yeah, I hate when they report that someone was depressed. So what? That means literally nothing. He literally saw demons when he stabbed someone? Okay, self-defense from hallucinations is relevant.
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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 7:15 pm
(February 13, 2018 at 5:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(February 13, 2018 at 11:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: What if that person has been, over his or her 40 years alive, a good person, but has a psychotic break, complete with hallucinations? Does that mean their crime arose out of innate badness?

As I said earlier, the exception is with legitimate insanity. What you describe above sounds like that.

Well, it pays for us to understand why any particular crime occurred, and chalking it up to mental disorder isn't excusing it, necessarily.

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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 7:29 pm
That's the one I used. Worked a treat.
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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 8:15 pm (This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 8:15 pm by GrandizerII.)
Shell, I wasn't even thinking Schizophrenia. I agree mental illness => more prone to being abused and harm. But I also think that some subset of mental illness/disorder (psychopathy/sociopathy(ASPD) and/or a select few other personality disorders, maybe even PD-NOS) does seem to increase the odds of these atrocities. I don't know, just seems that if someone can do such atrocities in their right mind (absent being coerced to do so and all that) is odd to me. The first thing that comes to mind is that person must be mentally fucked up to do such things, whether he's legally "sane" or not. Also substance abuse seems to be linked to mental damage of some sort, no?
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RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 8:30 pm (This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 8:50 pm by The Valkyrie.)
Getting ducks dancing is more fun.

All you need is a duck and a hot plate...

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