• nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    He said the killing wasn’t done out of hatred for his father, but to force the U.S. government to meet his demands — including the resignation of federal workers and the erasure of public debt.

    I’m gonna say this lad isn’t mentally well. But im sure being fed all that MAGA shit didn’t help

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        Fetal alcohol syndrome, if you read about it there are specific facial features that are pretty telling. I’m no expert but I’d make a bet.

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      Who… Who was he expecting the ransom from? Is the US government supposed to just wipe out its own debt? NVM what a wacko

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        I guess the govt could just default on the debt, which would cause a tiny teeny bit of economic problems globally. Nothing big deal, of course. cough

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    What an actual psychopath.

    It’s truly harrowing there’s people out there that would brutally dismember their family because they dared show compassion to other humans

    Fucking hell America

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      He’s not a psychopath; he’s psychotic. Those are very, very different.

      Psychopathy and sociopathy are functionally identical; they’re personality disorders where a person largely lacks the capacity for empathy, and hence remorse. Being psychotic means that you’re experiencing delusions; you may be hearing voices, or having uncontrollable impulses to do things that would be out of character. His behavior, based on what he’s saying, is entirely delusional; he doesn’t even have internally consistent logic in his actions.

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        Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information.

        What OP was referring to would be delusion.

        They have knowledge and information but choose to believe something else.

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          I chose not to recognize the biggotted subtext and instead to steelman the statement into something spiritually and factually meaningful.

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            It’s not bigoted to say religious people have no proof. Belief without proof is the definition of faith.

            It’s also not bigoted to say religion has a high kill count. Religion has been a major factor in wars and straight up murders since the beginning…

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        “Belief without proof” is the literal definition of faith, but it goes hand in hand with ignorance.

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          “Belief without proof” is what we are all forced to do in life where proof is rarely available, and yet we must still make decisions, and we must manage our doubt and the strain of responsibility. If you think you’re immune, you don’t understand the first thing about your own mind.

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            I make decisions on my past experiences and then adjust if things change. If people are just doing things without proof, then we just found the problem now, didn’t we?

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            But proof is always available if you know where to look, and that comes from education. The more educated you are, the less faith you have, and the more confidence you gain from our collective empirical experience. Nobody’s claiming anything else here. I know the mind is flawed.

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    I love when an article describing the most batshit stuff ends with “and the judge decided he was competent to stand trial.”