10 Jun 22
The post that was quoted here has been removedBecause that's the hypothetical question. Mental illness has implications for culpability and responsibility when it is a factor in a crime. The words "culpability and responsibility" have moral connotations. That's why this thought exercise is, at its very root, about the link between morality and crime.
10 Jun 22
@reservation247
FMF put the opening statement in quotes (“ … “ ), immediately followed by “If that statement were to be true … .” [Emphasis mine.] I think it would take a particularly daft or disingenuous reader to not see his hypothetical intention. (Which he has since reiterated.)
[Note: A number of right-wingers have been touting mental illness and/or moral decline as the drivers behind recent mass shootings. Therefore the possible dissonance between those views seems worthy of discussion. With that said, I think your citing of data that the mentally ill are more likely to be victims than perpetrators is right on – but FMF is hardly the person to attack on that. Try Greg Abbott, governor of Texas.]