On Dec 25, 11:15*am, Doug Miller
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Kurt Ullman wrote in news:0J-
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*Doug Miller wrote:
rfectly sane.

Yes, but people who commit mass murder are not.
* Accroding to YOUR view of life. Hardly something to inflict on entire
populations.

* * 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.
* * *Again, according to you. This is very much goal directed behavior,
just because it doesn't fit within your psychological context (or mine,
for that matter) doesn't automatically make it mental illness.

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

That's *not* rational.
Again to YOUR mind. The insistence on always calling everything you
don't seem to understand mental illness seems to be losing it
rationality *to me.

If you think it *is* rational... well, you perhaps should seek help.- Hide quoted text -

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Following your argument, then insanity would be an immediate and
airtight defense in any trial for a mass murderer. They, by
definition,
would be insane and could not be found guilty. Clearly that is not
the way the legal system works because the world doesn't use
your definition. And I'm sure if you look at the long'
list of defendants that have faced trial for mass murder, you will
find plenty that were judged sane and then tried and found guilty.