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Lokarin posted...

That's because the burden of proof for insanity is much lower than reality.

Probably because insanity is only really a legal term. Mentally ill people such as those who are schizophrenic, schizoaffective, or some other disorder with psychotic features aren't necessarily dangerous. When the legal system is talking about someone who is insane, they mean that they were basically not in their right mind and thus not legally responsible for their actions. Of course it's extremely hard to prove. People have pretended to have Dissociative Identity Disorder just to get a lighter sentence. Psychopaths really just have a personality disorder which are largely untreatable unlike mental illness.