I saw a debate program a week ago focusing on the Breivik assasination of approximately 77 people earlier last year.
One thing that struck me with the entire debate was that it focused on Breivik as mentally ill. People in the show tended to say as if a mantra that there can be mentally ill or disturbed people in society who can perform the same horrible act as Breivik.
It is very fashionable in this day and age to equate the abnormal with the mentally ill. Mental illness is an unfortunate state (more often than not) and there IS NO obvious link between mentall illness and violence. All debates like this one amounts to is to bring more wood to the fireplace so to speak, thus feeding peoples misconceptions of mental illness.
Breivik might or might not be mentally disturbed. I vote for the latter.
FZ