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In reply to the discussion: This blaming those of us mentally ill for your fucking gun problems is getting tiresome. [View all]Gregorian
(23,867 posts)To target rather than to help.
There is a difference between mental illness and emotionally crippled. All of the threads I've started on this subject refer to what I believe nearly everyone has- emotional traumas that are crippling them in some way. I honestly believe that nearly all of us are messed up, and we have nowhere to go for help. Not that we can afford. And even those who are supposed to be professionals are unqualified but a very few.
Our priorities are not on helping to improve the human condition as much as simply making life more comfortable and convenient. We spent a half trillion per year to aim guns at those who are not willing to give us what we want. Yet millions of people are suffering from emotional problems that go unaided.
I want to make this a better world. I see it as really quite simple. We'd have to start out by changing politics so that in order to even get to the place where you can affect millions of people's lives, you would have to pass an emotional test of some kind. George Bush, Romney, and those like them would fail without any doubt. And we would have leaders like Clinton, Obama, Carter, every time.
Then, we turn our military spending into productive spending. Hell, I wouldn't mind paying taxes if that were the case.
We aren't solving any of our problems. We're just massaging the symptoms.