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.

I’d argue that what happened in Newtown (as far as I understand it) wasn’t evil. Lanza does not appear to have been trying to accomplish anything that makes any sense.