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Yesterday, I heard someone mention that the horrific events at Virginia Tech was just an act of pure evil. That the person who did it was purely...evil.
I countered that having no information as yet, it was dangerous to just assign the title of "evil" to the person who committed this heinous act. The ACT...was heinous. Frankly, the person who did it, could have been severely mentally ill. Not one soul has the ability/right to judge any of that at this time.
He scoffed at that (as I find some narrow minded "scoffy" stereotypical Texans will do) and said that was an excuse for evil.
You ever want to taste my anger fully revealed? Say stupid shit like that. If you've never had your life touched by the impact of mental illness within your family, then I think to speak so outrageously is appalling. If you've never watched someone ravaged by the inability to control behaviors, impulses or watch them being "haunted" by things you have never experienced...then how could you possibly discern "evil" from illness? You might as well stick plugs in someone's neck and chase them with a fucking fiery stick. We know nothing, and we may know nothing for a very long time. Until we do know something (which may be never) why not refrain from judgement and castigation regarding things we do not understand?
I wonder when we will stop making assumptions about what mental illness is and isn't. I wonder when we will stop using race and culture to demean everything that is wonderful and beautiful about being alive, unique and distinct. I wonder...
...when we are all going to wake up.
