Look, evil is a stupid term and is a generalization in-and-of-itself.
I have heard Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Hitler, and Green Goblin called evil.
To the best of my knowledge, Hitler is the only one with any definable psychiatric "handicap". Green Goblin is fictional, Barack Obama has yet to show any proof of having one, and Bill O'Reilly is just a conceded ass hole.
Evil is a very.
Very.
Broad term.
So is the term insane however.
I have also been told that Bill O'Reilly is insane. In fact, I may have been the one who said this.
Regardless of who said it however, the fact still stands. It's a subjective term.
Now you can miss the context and read my responses the way you WANT them to be read, or you can read them how I wrote them, and it is simply this.
People who attach the term
"evil" onto this woman are
stupid because she clearly has a
mental disorder and should be put in
custody and then in a PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL so she can get some
help.
We are going to pin the term "evil" on her because we treat it like a piece of flare form Chachkie's. It's not.
Nothing can be more black and white than the term disorder.
simply put: A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern that occurs in an individual and is thought to cause distress or disability that is not expected as part of normal development or culture. [thank you Wikipedia]
So, this bitch has a mental disorder. She's not evil.
There is a difference. And they are not the same. And they never will be. I can't be any more clear than that.
In no way should you be applying the term willynilly to people with mental illnesses just because their actions are "not expected of normal development or culture".
Manson is "evil" because he killed so many people (or rather had so many people kill for him), not because of his disorder (which I still stand by saying he had one, insecurities bordering on delusions of grandeur to say the least).
However, it is this "disorder" that caused him to do what he did. If you want to, illogically,
draw a simple line saying that what I just said was "Manson is evil because he killed, he killed because of his disorder, therefore he is evil because of his disorder" than be a silly fat head and do so.
however, you are wrong and that is illogical. His disorder does not qualify his actions as evil. His actions do that.
[Edited on 15/6/09 by Ult_Sm86]