re: #216 Charles Johnson

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.

The military has spent centuries teaching people how to be willing and able to kill. “Brainwashed” is the answer there. Our own soldiers difficulty returning to normal life also backs this up. Don’t think I’m saying he is innocent by reason of insanity. That is a whole other standard.