The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #151677   Message #3551076
Posted By: Larry The Radio Guy
20-Aug-13 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
Subject: RE: BS: Reinforcing respectful 'boundaries'
OK, Don T. and Bobert. Let's assume that all your evidence provides strong support for GFS's insanity.   So he has a serious mental health issue.   

Bobert, now assume that GFS is either a patient of yours, a family member, or even just an acquaintance.   In your role as a mental health professional, would you not try to show such people respect.....and even if they attacked you or spat out words antithetical to social justice......would you attack him back?

My guess is probably not.

So why are you so focussed on disputing the words of this crazy guy?   And what makes it so hard to empathize with him.....and how difficult it must be for him?   

When a crazy person feels like a 'threat', it's usually because we perceive it as a threat to our own sanity.   But if we know for sure that the ideas that a mentally disturbed person puts out are truly delusions..........there really isn't a great deal of charge.