Kurt Ullman wrote in news:
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In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:



Doing something horrible does not automatically mean that person is
crazy.

Yes, it does. Sane people don't commit mass murder.
Nonsense. People commit murder who are perfectly sane.

Yes, but people who commit mass murder are not.
Is someone
who kills one person sane but two is insane? Three? What is the cutoff?


Perfectly level headed people can decide to throw their life
away if they feel their life is so screwed up that it's not salvagable.

Throwing your *own* life away in suicide *may* be a sane, rational decision
(though some
may disagree). Taking multiple strangers is NOT sane or rational.
Of course it is. People want to be remembered after death and this
is certainly one way to do it.

One way to do it, yes. Rational, no.

Might be the only (rational) way some
people can see their way clear.

That's *not* rational.

That and avenging old wrongs, is more or
less rational.

So in what fashion is the mass murder of strangers "avenging old wrongs"? In what fashion
is the mass murder of strangers "rational"?


It's a stupid decision, it's desperation, but it's not mental illness.

Suicide isn't, no. Mass murder is.
Not remotely always.

Ummm, yes. Always.