Huh!? If you can’t control yourself enough to keep from shooting a place up, violent is a given. So is psychotic.
And that's not mental illness - because ???
Okay... you guys deserve my explanation. I watched much of the Parkland Shooter trial, and I don't believe for a minute that miscreant was mentally ill. He was a violent, pathetic, anti-social person. A misfit... but there wasn't a shred of evidence that he was truly mentally ill in the sense that his brain had some sort of imbalance of neurotransmitters, or physically damaged cortex, or that alcohol fetal syndrome was responsible for his behavior. As the prosecution pointed out 99% of people that suffered alcohol fetal syndrome do not exhibit violent behavior, etc. In fact, most mentally ill people are less likely to be violent and become a victim of violence themselves. He was just a selfish miscreant and a intrinsically violent person that was just incorrigible. I just don't buy into the mentally ill theories the leftist psychologist want to label people who still possess archaic homicidal tendencies that the earliest hominids displayed. He just could not be tamed like a wild animal.
So that said, I believe humans are the product of evolutionary development... and in our natural state... we are in fact very violent animals. It is how we became the apex predators on this planet. It is the very simple rule of nature... Kill or be Killed. It is our assimilation into a society, a civilization that that has controlled the animal in all of us. Its law, religion, the fear of God, behavior for the greater good, that has tamed the animal we really are, the apex predator on this planet that **** sapien evolved into.
There is a lot of political science, psychology, religion, anthropology has to say about who we really are. You can't say a person is mentally ill, if he is doing precisely what his genetic predecessor was doing... say 5000 years ago. I am not religious but we do have biblical stories about Abel and Cain, brother killing brother? Right. It is in our history. Its in our fundamental political philosophy found in Thomas Hobbes' work 'Leviathan' where Hobbes describes how we evolved from living under the law of the jungle (where might and violence makes right) into a civilization where our behavior is governed by law, and a social contract. But even with religion, law, and culture... we have not genetically changed all that much since the first humans walked this earth.
Now, I don't expect everyone to accept my version of who we are, but even psychologists believe that by our innate genetic nature we are probably the most homicidal, violent animals on the planet. There have been numerous papers that have been already written on this subject... that our homicidal tendencies are actual the norm, and it may be very well be how we evolved and why we survived to become the most prolific and successful mammal on the planet.
The rate of lethal violence is 7 times higher than the average for all mammals.
www.psychologytoday.com
“Step back and view our species objectively from the outside, the way a zoologist would carefully observe any other animal, or see us the way every other creature perceives human beings. The brutal reality could not be more evident or more horrifying. We are the most relentless yet oblivious killers on Earth.
“Our violence operates far outside the bounds of any other species. Human beings kill anything. Slaughter is a defining behavior of our species. We kill all other creatures, and we kill our own.
We know from a wealth of archeological evidence how violent we once were perhaps hundreds or thousands of times more violent than we are today. Imagine that? If you think a homicide rate of 6 per 100,000 is high... it may have been 6000 per 100,000 five thousand years ago. Heck one of the greatest civilizations of ancient times... the Roman Empire had slaves fighting to their deaths in the colosseum as a form of pure entertainment, no different from how we use soccer or football as a form of entertainment.
Russkies didn't blame everything on mental illness russkies used "mental illness" to shove dissents into looney bins when Gulags were full. Heck Russky criminals during the 90s raped pillaged IED'd, RPG'd, sniped, maimed and molested left and right but they never opened fire on random people or to settle some workplace grudges. It was strictly targeted business and do anything otherwise was just bad form and bad morals. This whole random mass shooting business is uniquely US problem, sign of disjoined society again not a gun problem people problem.
