Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20150707052956/@comment-3581997-20150827211155

There is a book called the Suicidal Embrace, good book, and I do recommend it, it goes into the psychology that lead to the rise of Nazism in Germany and why it stayed there. The set-up of the book made me think that the book was trying to excuse Adolf Hitler. Luckily my teacher at the time, who had written the book, clarified for me that it was not the intent to drum up sympathy for him rather just explain where the aggression and hatred came from. Now why do I bring this up?- To illustrate a point. "Aw poor little Adolf, he was just warped because his father beat him savagely and Germany let him down politically." and by the same token "Aw poor Enrico Maxwell, he just snapped cause he felt like no-one ever loved him.", Aw poor Sephiroth he was just a scared kid going through an identity crisis trying to impress his mommy.", Aw poor Peter Griffin he is only intentionally harming his entire family and town because he is retarded and doesn't know any better.".

Uh No.

There is such a thing as sympathy but when the end result turns this into this

it is time to re-examine. Sometime a harsh upbringing is just that. While it can justify motivation it can not justify action unless those actions are uncontrollable. Mental-illness can explain why someone did collectively irrational things but there are plenty of mentally ill or people in the world who don't hurt others, people who hear voices and have fully-blown schizophrenia who choose not to hurt others. Some mentally-ill people do have a genuine justification for their actions, Norman Bates for example, now was Norman actually possessed by his mother? No of-course not. Did he murder all those women because he was mentally-ill? Not specifically no. His Mental Illness left him trapped in his childhood at the cruel treatment of his mother to the point where he wanted to kill women but still knew it was wrong and so he constructed a second personality for himself, that of his cruel violent mother. This is why possession or brainwashing is often followed by the notion of tradgety, because the individual can not choose to do otherwise.