One observation I have made in recent years is that some people with mental illness are willing to stigmatize other people with mental illness. The rationale is sometimes "Well, I'm not THAT mentally ill." Or "I would never do THAT, so my mental illness doesn't deserve to be stigmatized, but THEIRS does."

It is true that most people with mental illness are peaceful and law abiding citizens. Way too often, people with mental illness are the victims of crime and abuse. However, some people with mental illness do commit crimes sometimes. Sometimes crimes that the "morally superior" deem "evil".

Religions and/or cultures, themselves, shape people's views. That's an undebatable fact. But sometimes they also narrow views and obfuscate. Some may take offense to the sentence just before this, however, many of those same people would not find it offensive to say about other people's religions or cultures. This also applies to some people's attitudes towards the more scientific-minded.