• Dearche@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Having strong ideological beliefs on top of being desperate doesn’t mean you have mental illness by a massive margin. Most terrorists at most are depressed, not mentally ill. These are two radically different things. Just because someone is a danger to themselves and others doesn’t make them terrorists either.

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      3 hours ago

      No. If you think that some group of people is superior to another group of people, and its justifiable to use violence against everyone in the inferior group, you have a mental illness.

      Thats why we have correctional facilities, so these people can be separated from society while they receive treatment for their illness.

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        1 hour ago

        That’s not mental illness, that’s having immoral beliefs. Being racist doesn’t get you put into correctional facilities even if you advocate for the use of force against groups you don’t like. If that was true, than Israel would be one of the world’s largest correctional facilities in the world.

        Or maybe the US, considering how they elected Trump.