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      Easy to say from where we sit. Harder when that job is what’s keeping a roof over your head and food on your table.

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        Right, but she was compulsively murdering babies in the hospital. Can we all agree that she shouldn’t have had a job as a nurse in a NICU? That doesn’t feel like a statement with room for debate.

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          But… The comment is about why the murderer perhaps didn’t seek mental health. Because she didn’t want to lose her job. Who is saying that this was a good job for her to have?!

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            The other dumb fucks pushing the issue for whatever reason. I’m trying to figure out why it’s so important for them for everyone else to submit to their opinion that the murderer was mentally ill. What difference would it even make? She’d be a threat to the community regardless and so her imprisonment or execution would be justified whether she was mentally ill or not, so what’s the deal, I wonder?

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              The point is that if she had had help before she started killing babies, we wouldn’t even be here.

              But she didn’t. We may never know why in her case, but in other cases, fear of losing your job and having no way to afford food, housing, or other needs is one reason.

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              Because people always look for answers. The other explanation would be “some people are just evil” which is irrational, unscientific, sounds like religious bs and gives no room for change.

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                There are any number of explanations that could apply. You’re presenting a false dichotomy between “mental illness” and “some people are just evil” because you’re looking to silence opinions you do not agree with, and you don’t have a right to do that. What if there’s a different reason? What if she was blackmailed or brainwashed? What if it was part of her religion? What if someone paid her off to do it? Your mind jumped immediately to mental illness, a mindset that stigmatizes the mentally ill. You cannot call yourself good or just when you do that.

                The truth is that some people really are just evil and they do stuff like this because they’re sadistic, or entitled, or because they think they can do what they want with impunity. You being unable to accept that fact doesn’t make it not true, and that answer not sounding pleasant to you doesn’t make it false either. No one’s obligated to give a baby murderer room for change; they’re allowed to put the well-being of children and the community above hers.

                It sounds like you’re just mad because other people are rightfully mad at her and want to see her punished, and you can’t see what’s wrong with that. You legitimately don’t understand that it’s not right to morally condemn others for wanting to excise someone like her from the community – an act hardwired in most social animals to protect their safety and the safety of the group, including humans. Maybe the one who’s mentally ill here isn’t her, it’s you.

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                  For someone demanding tolerance you are awfully intolerant towards differing opinions.

                  Being sadistic, entititled, or thinking you are above everyone else can all be the result of someone’s mental illness.

                  I do not believe in good and evil, not a religious person. While the transition is gradual, we normally understand a physical and psychological alteration as an “illness” when it causes the affected person pain / discomfort / limitation or when it makes living in current society close to impossible.

                  Wanting to kill babies certainly fits that definition. Whether she was actually brainwashed or mindcontrolled by aliens, we do not know. But additional possibilities don’t rule out mental illness as an option.

                  I also didn’t meant to give the option to change to the murderer, but that there is the possibility for humans to get rid of murderers, for example, when we find a way to cure all kinds of extreme mental illnesses.

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                    Haha, I was right. You’re mad. Big mad. Well, I’m mad too. From your sniveling backtracking to your refusal to question your own motives or thoughts, it’s obvious you’re defending and sympathizing with a baby murderer because her existence challenges your worldview and beliefs. You’re immature, ignorant, arrogant, and bigoted. You are manipulative, and you are cruel.

                    Being sadistic, entititled, or thinking you are above everyone else can all be the result of someone’s mental illness.

                    But they’re not, and you don’t have the authority to assert they are. Those are the qualities of an evil person or just an asshole. You are a perfect example of this.

                    While the transition is gradual, we normally understand a physical and psychological alteration as an “illness” when it causes the affected person pain / discomfort / limitation or when it makes living in current society close to impossible.

                    but additional possibilities don’t rule out mental illness as an option.

                    Repeat after me, dipshit: You do not have the authority or the qualifications to label other people mentally ill.

                    You do not have the evidence, training or education required to label her mentally ill. You’ve never even spoken to her or met her. You do not know jack shit about her mindset. So you’re not going to label her mentally ill.

                    You’re not going to claim she’s mentally ill.

                    You’re not even going to imply she’s mentally ill.

                    You’re not going to do anything but shut your mouth and learn to stop being an ableist prick.

                    Understand?

                    I do not believe in good and evil, not a religious person.

                    Good and evil aren’t religious labels, they’re moral ones. Atheists believe good and evil exist because they’re labels we apply to behavior that recognize the agency and responsibility other people have for their actions, and those labels acknowledge the obvious fact they need to be held accountable and punished for them.

                    I also didn’t meant to give the option to change to the murderer,

                    Yes you did, stop lying.

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        So a baby murderer should have been allowed to keep her job and continue to put innocent lives in danger because you 1) baselessly think she’s mentally ill, and 2) think that a condition as extreme as you’re implying shouldn’t be regarded with consequence.

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      Ok, but she shouldn’t have had her job.

      Of course not, but that’s not looking at it from the perspective of her mental illness.

      From her point of view, keeping her job was likely a high priority.