Mental illness?

[sophia_sadek]

When someone like Elliot Rodger commits an atrocity by killing people out of spite, a great deal of hand-wringing occurs with the words "mental illness" thrown in. Rodger' atrocity was socially unacceptable, so his actions are seen as symptomatic of "illness." When the federal government commits similar atrocities, they are considered socially

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[layo]

I wonder how many people have figured out that if they get other people to do their dirty work for them, violent use of power increases rather than decreases their status. That's apparently what people think makes you an "alpha": having a crew.

Rodgers could have been a psychopath but not psychotic. Maybe he thought he'd get famous in prison and women would send him love letters. Too bad for him that he fired on some cops and was "found dead".

[sophia_sadek]

He got sucked into believing the stuff he read on-line about being a manly man. I know some guys who went through that phase, but they never got as serious about it as Elliot Rodger got.

I doubt that if a cop shot him, the cop would try to cover it up as a suicide. It is not something a cop would want to hide.