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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness? by KevBurnsJr on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @10:36AM (#407633)
"Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society."
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness? by okeumeni on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @11:32AM (#407718)
Insanity in the context of this quote is not mental disease.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with mental illness? by KevBurnsJr on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @03:45PM (#408084)
To me, insanity refers to a judgment of the rationality of an observed behavior.

Who is to say whether an exhibited mode of behavior deemed by the observer to be irrational is the product of a mental disease or the rational course of action given a more complete understanding of the world?

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