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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
Instead, Watson, in his post-academic writings (e.g., Watson 1924), asserted that uncontrolled and unintentional parental (especially maternal) behaviors were the sole influences on the character development of children. Watson exhorted parents (again, especially mothers) to program their interactions with their children in such a way as to produce desirable character development, where “desir- able,” broadly construed, meant “socially useful.”
Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories
Robert W. Rieber
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