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pyresword posted...

I don't know whether I would or I wouldn't, but either I really don't like the labeling of anyone who commits acts of mass violence as "insane". Disregarding whether or not it's accurate, I think the way the term is too colloquially used is to paint them as beyond help or "different from us", when I think the first step to preventing things like this is to recognize that they are also human and to then determine what led to them taking the actions that they did.

As I'm thinking about it, this rant probably applies less so to religious terrorists and more to members of our own society who one day "just snap", but I feel this is worth mentioning anyways.

The labeling of anyone who perpetuates great harm as "insane" is a way for people to divorce themselves from the perpetrators, basically. "At least I could never be like that, because I'm sane."

There's also the idea that delusion and insanity are the same thing, when they are not.

Anyone can become deluded, especially when they believe they are immune to delusion because of their intelligence.
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