• athos77
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    881 year ago

    Good on this man. Also

    Police are now investigating how and why Cauchi, who is from the state of Queensland, committed such violence.

    Gee, five of the six people he killed were women, and his father said, “He wanted a girlfriend and he has no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain,” but it’s such a mystery, I guess we’ll never know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • @Murvel@lemm.ee
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          101 year ago

          Yeah… just saying that might have something to do with it. Or is it to your mind completely irrelevant…?

          • @PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
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            151 year ago

            It genuinely could be completely irrelevant. Was he suffering a psychotic episode during the attack?

            By saying “he stabbed people because he’s schizophrenic”, you’re grouping millions of innocent people in with a murderer in a way that is no more fair than the far-right scum who immediately say “I bet he’s a Muslim”.

            Not only does that discourage people from seeking help and turn them into pariahs, it contributes functionally nothing to our understanding of why this happened because not all mentally ill people are violent and not all violent people are mentally ill.

                  • @MetaCubed@lemmy.world
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                    31 year ago

                    A person who is mentally ill and has done violent things, doesn’t mean they did those violent things because of their illness.

                    In fact, your “common sense” isn’t even supported by science.

                    • Only 10-15% of schizophrenic people exhibit violent tendencies

                    • Schizophrenic people living in communities are up to 14x more likely to be the victim of violence rather than the perpetrator

                    • Finally, this is anecdotal, but for whatever it’s worth, I have multiple (3) friends who are schizophrenic and they are genuinely the kindest people I know, whether or not they are on their medication.

                    Stop vilifying the mentally ill.

          • @Hazor@lemmy.world
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            101 year ago

            May or may not be relevant. Statistically, people with illnesses like schizophrenia are no more likely to commit violent crimes than the general population (but are more likely to be victims of violent crimes). There are documented cases of people with schizophrenia killing or commiting other violent acts in response to delusions, but it’s usually in an act that they perceive as self-defense rather than being driven by malice or desire to harm. I.e., it’s generally more like “I killed my dad because he was going to kill me” rather than “I went out and murdered some random women because no women like me.”

    • SeaJ
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      381 year ago

      Dudes will literally murder people instead of going to therapy.