Ok do you have proof of that? I mean I certainly wouldn't know if any of them have a mental illness or not...but to assume mental illness is what contributes to people behaving that way, or thinking people should lack compassion for the mentally ill if a few mentally ill people are jerks or worse seems a little extreme. I am sure many of those people aren't mentally disturbed and just see a target to pick on. I garante when I experienced bullying in public school there where plenty of non-mentally ill people taking part.

Lots of non-mentally ill people behave like jerks to or do cruel things to other poeple....so I am not entirely sure what your point is. Should I have less compassion for someone who's not mentally ill if they are struggling with a bad situation because some non-mentally ill people are jerks or even sadistic? Also not sure what good it would do to focus on the fact some people doing the harrassment might be mentally ill maybe the focus should be on that sort of harrasment is really messed up no matter who's doing it...rather then trying to point fingers at mentally ill people in general over it.