Ya it is odd that it is assumed that only mentally ill people can be assholes. He did X, he must be mentally ill. Roughly 7.5% of violent crimes can be attributed to a mental illness.

This means that the vast majority of crime is committed by 'healthy' people. Find it odd that folks can't seem to believe a 'healthy' person is capable of anythin besides good.

reddit is terrible with this. Always linkin harm with mental illness only serves to perpetuate the fear and stereotype of mental illness. What the fuck do you think happens to peoples views of mental illness when EVERY person that kills someone is said to be mentally ill? No wonder folks fear em. People think they are doin good for it, when in reality they are doin more harm than good.

Nobody wants to think your average person, and thus them, are capable of heinous shit so they have to attribute the actions to somethin they do not possess themselves. it screws with a lot of peoples world view to think about acceptin it. It would mean they too have a sleepin monster inside them, and are not as 'pure' and 'good' as they want to think themselves as.

In the end, as always it can be attributed to pure selfishness.

Part of bein 'charismatic' and thus helpin a cause, requires one to be able to read their audience. Framing things in a way to actually help does not equate to an acceptance of people not bein able to think things through. But you have to know your audience and the audience is ~68% of the population who lies within a standard deviation of average or 94% within two. You are not speakin to the upper and lower extreme of humanity. If one takes a stance of 'I figured it out, everyone else should be able to and I won't cater to them', then you lost before you even started.

Sometimes the best thing to help a situation is to do nothing if one does not fully understand the situation; You can cause more harm than good by acting.

So in the end, I guess it is fundamental attribution error in relation to mentall illness that gets me.