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Re:8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now by lumberjack on Sunday August 04, 2019 @03:03AM (#20604872)
It's not a mental health problem. It's a propaganda problem. These people aren't clinically insane. They are just enveloped in hatred. In particular dehumanization propaganda brainwashed them into seeing others as not even human.

If you go to places with decades long conflicts, you'll see this mentality on display everywhere. So it's not a mental health issue. All these people aren't insane. They are just really convinced that some other people are the enemy and that those other people are not even worthy of existing at all and that their life is worthless.

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Re:8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now by tomhoward on Sunday August 04, 2019 @03:59AM (#20605085)
I can agree that it's not a problem of mental health in the sense of diagnosable conditions like major depression, schizophrenia, etc.

But it is linked to the inability of people to achieve positive life outcomes - i.e., healthy friendships and intimate relationships, satisfying and well-paying jobs, and a sense of community engagement.

This kind of deep hatred only develops after you've spent enough of your life absent of acceptance and love.

There currently isn't an obvious path to a better life for people in this situation.

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