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It's too convenient to label bad people as mentally ill. What drove this young man was hate not mental illness. I understand why the non-mentally ill would like to exclude this violence from their potential, but we don't need to pathologize hate and murder. Hate is a normal human emotion. And hate is the motivator for most homicides. I see no reason why we need to separate hate that leads to an individual murder from hate that leads to mass murder.
This Is Not Really About Mental Illness. It Is Really About Misogyny
dailykos.com
I don’t fear Ebola. I fear the flu spreading like a fire in a dry forest. I fear the return of Polio, or an outbreak of the measles. I fear stupidity and lies. I fear Jenny McCarthy, and Kristin Cavallari, celebrities with platforms, who are not doctors, spreading not just lies about vaccines but actual diseases with their unprotected children.
Shot Through the Heart - The Awl
theawl.com
We should expect such mysteries to build. The immune system’s reaction to the virus is a matter of biology, but the range of reactions we actually see is also influenced by politics. Bad decisions mean more cases, which means a wider variety of possible immune responses, which means a higher prevalence of rare events. In other words, the worse the pandemic gets, the *weirder* it will get.
The Pandemic's Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com
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