Heffay wrote:XDM45 wrote:I'm quite mature. Pick your poison then, whatever floats your happy boat.... wacko, nutjob, mentally challenged, sanity challenged, completely effen bonkers, insane, mad, whatever term you like and prefer. I don't get hung up on semantics. I think most people would agree the guy was wacko (as I prefer to call him for his insane actions).
Part of the problem right here, folks. Please learn from this example about what not to do, and refrain from using inflammatory language yourself. We do not live isolated from society, and pretending otherwise is foolish. Until we can take mental illness seriously, we're going to continue to have these problems until we no longer have a voice in the process. As a group, we need to grow up and police our own misguided souls like this guy.
In your opinion I'm misguided, which is your opinion. In mine, you are something else based on past posts, but to each our own opinion.
As for inflammatory, that depends on the listener or reader in this case. "wacko" doesn't bother me, maybe it does you. I'm pretty hard to offend, but I realized others are not and have more delicate natures. So granted, keeping that in mind I may need to sugar coat things and use different words to not stir up some people.
As for policing, I do quite fine on my own.
I agree that mental illness is a serious deal, but I'm not going to coddle someone over it, nor am I going to try and be all PC over it either. Call it what you want, but you're getting hung up on the semantics. Again, call it what you like, but I call someone who goes into a school after killing his mother with the purpose of leveling her class, pretty wacko.
The PC stuff has gone too far.
Maybe we should classify him by the DSM? Would that be ok?
