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[–] FlyingSquid -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you educate away violent mental illness?

[–] NoMadMan 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

To quote you: "You will not just make things like jealousy, violent tendencies, the need to be controlled, and people fearing those different from them magically disappear."

Please point to the words 'violent mental illness' in your original post. Now take your yellow highlighter pen and color it on your screen. Actually, use a Sharpie - what the hell. Maybe next time you'll see it and remember not to speak out of turn.

If you mean to say that 'violent tendencies' is necessarily equivalent to 'violent mental illness', I would counter that they are two different things. I would say that people in the armed forces have violent tendencies. Police officers have violent tendencies. But violent mental illness is a completely different thing. Violent mental illness implies that the violence is not a rational response to the situation at hand.

So, sorry I took away your little 'Gotcha!" moment.

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay, well you can counter it but that is still what I meant to say.

And I didn't do any sort of gotcha comment. That's not something I do. I resent the suggestion. If you're going to just make uncivil accusations, we can stop this right now.

[–] NoMadMan 1 points 2 months ago

Dude, it's your ball. Take it and go if you're upset.