mental illness is a broad spectrum, maybe when they report crimes that actually are mental health related they could be more specific as to the diagnosis of that particular person. Until then they should not label it as MI. That I understand.
On a parallel thought, is it fair to call someone who commits a terrible crime evil? Since evil is so loosely defined. An ambiguous cop out term if you ask me.
It’s not mental illness, he was evil...I am unable, to any certain degree, separate the two within the scope of a non religious belief.
Evil, or behaviour that intentionally hurts others could very well be a misguided process within the brain/psyche. Scrambled neurons...I don’t know but “evil” must have an origin, nothing “just is”, not if you approach it from a scientific perspective.