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Originally Posted by AlicornsPrayer BUT, here's the thing...A mental issue isn't wrong if it's just an emotional/mental issue. It's physically acting on it that makes it 'wrong'. Although there's nothing wrong in being a 'schizophrenic'...Once that schizophrenic commits a crime, then their illness becomes wrong.
It's kind of like when people have the thoughts 'I want to kill you' or even says 'I'm going to kill you'...Thinking about killing isn't a crime in itself...But once you commit the act of killing, carry through the thought with an actual physical act, that causes the problems of it being wrong.
Or if you don't like that scenerio...How about road rage? You can be as angry as you wish at other drivers while going down the road in your car. But once you take those thoughts, put them into physcal motion, thus endangering the other motorists? Being mad isn't a crime...Acting out on that anger in a way that causes others to suffer is. | Yes I know, that's what I'm saying; and it's the premise of the question. People are killed by schizos, yet that doesn't mean we should shun people with the disease of schizophrenia alone (those that haven't acted). That would constitute punishing people for "thought crimes"; that's not what we do in a civilized society. "If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, then have faith; if you want to be a disciple of truth, then search" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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