Two Absurdities
One, "I can speculate on the AZ shooter's mental state, but you can't, and therefore he is not insane": http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/7527216.html
Short answer: sorry, but its simply not sane to do what Loughner did. And yes, being a sociopath is an issue of sanity, or a lack thereof. There is no justification to claim that he's not mentally ill with the bizarre pretense that that is some kind of "defense" of the mentally ill. It's not like the mentally ill are some kind of homogeneous group.
Two, "I won't account for whether or not a "clan mentality" can be applied to humans as a whole (via Oxytocin hormones) so therefore it cannot apply to humans as a whole": community.livejournal.com/libertarianism/2798805.html
(The discussion in "liberal" is more illuminating): http://community.livejournal.com/liberal/3340001.html
Short answer: Without defining the limits of this hormone's clan mentality, there is no reason to discount its viability in applying to a "universal brotherhood" model. It's not brain surgery, kids, its basic math.
Short answer: sorry, but its simply not sane to do what Loughner did. And yes, being a sociopath is an issue of sanity, or a lack thereof. There is no justification to claim that he's not mentally ill with the bizarre pretense that that is some kind of "defense" of the mentally ill. It's not like the mentally ill are some kind of homogeneous group.
Two, "I won't account for whether or not a "clan mentality" can be applied to humans as a whole (via Oxytocin hormones) so therefore it cannot apply to humans as a whole": community.livejournal.com/libertarianism/2798805.html
(The discussion in "liberal" is more illuminating): http://community.livejournal.com/liberal/3340001.html
Short answer: Without defining the limits of this hormone's clan mentality, there is no reason to discount its viability in applying to a "universal brotherhood" model. It's not brain surgery, kids, its basic math.