The Mental Illness Cop-Out
http://takimag.com/article/the_mental_illness_cop_out_jim_goad#axzz3ACt8zw70
And a lot of killers are walking the streets because some liberal judge let them off the hook because some liberal lawyer coped a “mental illness” defense.
I agree with the article in this respect....
“The very idea of “mental illness” is schizoid. It implies that the “illness” is somehow a separate entity from the person, thus casting responsibility on the illness rather than the person....... Isolating the illness allows one ‘to pretend’ that their personality is infected with a germ, when the more likely explanation is that they simply have a bad personality.......The fundamental error in the idea of “mental illness” lies in creating a fictional duality between the person’s imaginary affliction and the core of their very being.
This in no way discounts the reality of neurological disorders. Those are ‘physical conditions’ that can be quantified. But in most cases, “mental illness” seems like a cheap and dishonest way of avoiding what are fundamental character flaws.