[ SECRET POST #3352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3352 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular or controversial opinions

[feotakahari]

I think blaming mentally ill people for gun violence is ultimately just as much of a smokescreen as blaming video games.

This one pretty much needs citations, so I'll start with something scholarly: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4318286/ Something more informal: https://www.propublica.org/article/myth-vs-fact-violence-and-mental-health And something flat-out hilarious: http://www.newsweek.com/maybe-oregon-shooting-and-others-arent-about-mental-illness-378875 (Read the comments section on this one. I can't believe he's still at it.)

Re: Unpopular or controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

What do you think about blaming mass school shootings on prescription drugs? I haven't done the research myself, but I have heard people say that the one thing most of the school shooters have had in common is that they were on Ritalin or antidepressants or what have you.

Re: Unpopular or controversial opinions

[feotakahari]

I haven't heard that one before. I'd need to see the research.

Re: Unpopular or controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

That's like... I mean, I haven't looked at the data, but that feels like a really obviously flawed argument?

If nothing else, when you consider the baseline rate at which school-age boys are prescribed Ritalin and antidepressants, I think it would be immensely hard to establish a causative effect.

Re: Unpopular or controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

It's an obvious conflation of a bunch of different things, yeah. I don't think anyone not engaging in motivated reasoning could seriously believe it.

Re: Unpopular or controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I would argue that the simple act of killing people (for reasons other than self-defense, protecting someone else, etc.) is indicative of something not being right mentally. Mentally healthy people generally don't kill other people unless there are desperate reasons.

Re: Unpopular or controversial opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with this. Killing someone is severely abnormal behavior. Killing someone out of the blue (not in self-defense, not in a drunken rage, whatever) seems almost always inherently indicative of something being wrong with the individual.