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Originally Posted by mcl6136
Some people who have experienced mental illness ARE the best kind of people.
But some are not.
Some of them are violent offenders, horrible parents, sociopathic politicians, serial killers, bad actors on the world stage who are responsible for the extermination of millions of innocent people.
I understand wanting to remove stigmas. I understand that struggling with mental illness does not mean that you're a bad person. But it does not mean that you're NOT a bad person, either.
Three cheers for the mentally ill? Not all of them. Not by a long shot.
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There's a positive and a negative to every phenomenon. I put forward the positive, and you put forward the negative; and the negative contains a lot of truth. If I had initially put forward the negative, perhaps you would have viewed it as an opportunity to put forward the positive? I think it's called "being contrary", or you may choose to call it "offering the alternative point of view" or "the flip side".
Both negative and positive are right within their own right, together providing a more balanced and comprehensive view. But for the purpose of this forum, where there are many mentally ill people who are
not violent, sociopathic, serial killers; I chose to offer something exclusively positive at the expense of ignoring the negatives, and in an attempt to help mentally ill people feel just a little bit better about themselves.