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In reply to the discussion: Just a reminder: Most people with mental illness are NOT violent. [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)on innocent people, especially small children.
The perp may not be insane (which legally means not able to tell right from wrong), but that doesn't mean that he isn't mentally ill. There is something wrong with the processing in his brain. Sociopaths know right from wrong, but don't care. They are missing element in their mental make up that the rest of us have.
They do not and can not feel emotions the way others do.
I have heard of pepole who have had head injuries that left them unable to feel emotion (other than a cold anger). Perhaps those who are sociopaths have some sort of brain injury as a result of birth trauma or accident when they were young.
Just because something like Columbine was well calculated doesn't mean it was well reasoned. In fact, logic and reason in that act was seriously flawed. Revengeful thinking itself is a type of mental unbalance.