Why is it that these psychos are called 'Mentally Ill'?

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Maximilian

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mammador

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I hate how they label some murderers as mentally ill and then they get off easy. I don't care what they are, if they comitted a crime they should be punished equally. They had enough thought process going on in their brain to go forward with the murder. If a dog bites someone we put it down, even though the dog may not understand what happened and why it was bad. Why should we treat mentally ill any different? They still did the crime, they should do the time. It's not nice to say, but do we really want those people in the gene pool anyway? Lock em up if they murder someone.

they are locked up. Though it depends on the facts of each case. If they get a lower sentence, so what? So you oppose the concept of manslaughter, since it's based on the same rationale?
 

God Mode

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Being a predatory shitbag isn't a mental disease and should never be allow as an excuse for such.
 

mammador

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No seriously what are you trying to argue?

Psychiatric medicine is just the treatment and diagnosis of mental illness.

You can argue that it could be better but I'd be interested to hear how you'd do that.

Edit; I posted three questions earlier, they are not leading questions and they are pretty simple. Why not answer them?

Edit 2; wait those aren't really your answers are they?

I simply don't trust the "profession".

It's based on the 19th century mentality. And frankly most people in modern society are ill per the psyhiatrists' definitions.
 

mammador

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Mental illness is a false concept.

The diagnoses don't even make sense, and it's just a tool to oppress people. haha..
 

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A psychopath is legally sane but not normal. Back in the 1980s a person with schizophrenia murdered a woman he met in group therapy. He was ruled to be legally sane and guilty and sent to prison for life.