No, you are not pissing in the wind. Someone who is insane and commits any violent act should be kept away from the rest of us who are supposedly normal. But you see, the bed wetters won't let you do that. We used to put them away in hospitals for their own safe keeping and ours. But that all changed back in the seventies. Oh well.
Yep, we see them come and go every day. And after X number of days and Y amount of treatment, we have to discharge them. At best back to family or a group home, worse just back to the homeless shelter. But they always come back, mentally and physically sicker than before. While there are some creeps, most of them are so lost and low functioning it's like throwing puppies into the highway.
Quoting Bible text is very common, but almost anything with directions or admonitions has been a focus. But because the Bible is the most read book in the world, I guess it would be the most prevalent. At least half believe they're God, Jesus or at least, one of the angels. Sometimes it is a table or chair that is talking (that is easier to see as crazy). Sometimes it is just a voice. But it seems they are always getting commands or directions. The silliest being to get nekkid and sign hymns, the worst being to hurt someone.
I have had my hair pulled, been grabbed and told I God was telling them to subdue the demon within me (yeah, me). I have seen people crying their eyes out about witnessing the murder of their families (it didn't happen). Then there are those who are just in a constant rage, period,because they believe they are sane and WE are all demons, thieves and murderers.
I have had patients who refused to eat and were starving to death because they saw filth and vermin in all food. Another would routinely come in dehydrated and starving because she too wouldn't eat. She had figured out that it caused elimination, and anything that happened below her waist threw her into fits of hysteria (guess what happened to HER as a kid?).
Ya wanna know evil? Evil is a man who was passed around like candy from infancy to teens by his parents- to friends of both genders. I saw him years ago as an angelic faced, but very twisted boy that the Dr.s were trying to bring to some for of normalcy. They failed I guess. He'll be institutionalized for the rest of his life.
I had a serial rapist complain that his eggs weren't cooked like his grannies, flirting with me the entire time. I had man who had raped his 12 year old sister ask for more food and complain that people were acting mean to him. BTW, person one was faking crazy (we all knew it) and was sent to prison, person two was well, insane, but fully aware of the harm he was doing.
Evil is sociopath like Scott Peterson, a selfish witch like Susan Smith or our all time favorite, just plain crazy Charles Manson.
I have been around those who have killed, are insane and truly oblivious, the youngest being 4 year old. I wish I could tell you they were like Hannable Lechter, or some mad, drooling fiend. I wish I could tell you that they were obviously evil. I wish I could tell you there was some clear clue to what made them deranged. I wish I could tell you I hated them. But most of the time, looking at them is like looking into a cave. There was nothing there. All I felt was extreme caution around them and great sorrow for those they had harmed.
Oh, yeah. And very grateful they were locked away. Which is what started this ;)