re: #202 Political Atheist

If whatever makes a man willing to kill like that is not a mental illness in the books, psychology has some important work to do. IMHO

Was every single soldier in Nazi Germany’s Einsatzgruppen “mentally ill?” Because the atrocities they committed far exceeded the Newtown massacre - and they did it every single day, for months on end, and sent postcards to their families showing them doing it.

I just think it’s a facile and intellectually lazy cop-out to automatically equate evil deeds with mental illness.