U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence
U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence
Signing up to be humiliated and put through bootcamp, given a gun, freedom to kill and voluntarily putting yourself in the line of fire is a predictor of extremist violence? I’m gonna have to disagree with you on this one.
How about add on daily propaganda that tells you that the elite are out to get you, immigrants are invading, trans people are everywhere, communism is taking over and your way of life is disappearing ... as well as messaging constantly telling you that you're poor because of these reasons and if you get hurt or get sick you'll go into debt, if you go to school you'll go into debt, you buy a house you're in debt, you buy a car you're in debt, you eat you're in debt, you breathe you're in debt ... all because of poor people, elites, immigrants, trans people .... constantly droning on and on every single day.
All In a country where anyone can get a prescription to an antipsychotic or antidepressant and have the ability to buy a gun or many guns.
What could go wrong
How about add on daily propaganda that tells you that the elite are out to get you, immigrants are invading, trans people are everywhere, communism is taking over and your way of life is disappearing …
But enough about the police academy...
All In a country where anyone can get a prescription to an antipsychotic or antidepressant and have the ability to buy a gun or many guns.
I don't think the main violent threat is in people who do take their medicine in time and care about their mental health.
It's like the ex-Soviet countries where people who've never been to a psychiatrist and never allowed thought that something may be off with them are proud of that, cause they are "normal" or something. As if having a condition was something shameful, or even transferring via personal contacts.
I mean, that aside, people with most developed and mature and intelligent personality I've met all didn't ignore their mental health and took medicine and probably had a D or two.
Statistically people with no condition from DSM are just over 4% of the population. That's the absolute minority.
Plus, even rationally it doesn't make sense. Even if it is shameful to have a mental disorder, pretending you don't have it will most likely make it worse (and hence more shameful) than if you accepted it and got treatment.
If we are talking about ex-USSR, the very popular among ignorami there idea of mental disorders is that these are not genetic like albinism, but something infectious like HIV, or a conspiracy by psychiatrists, or some other crap.
It's stigma combined with fear. Well, and also the fact that in USSR only people with really debilitating conditions, like schizophrenia in full cognitive decline stage, would be hospitalized, and usually forcibly. And, of course, another category of patients - political dissidents diagnosed with a specifically invented type of schizophrenia to lock them up.
EDIT: Ah, and also that weird idea that people with mental conditions are always in everything less intelligent than people without those. Say, when you are autistic, people often outright refuse to understand what you say, until met with reality. References to stoicism or common ideas that Einstein or some Roman emperors or someone else very probably were autistic, or, say, Anthony Hopkins, and who not, - these are all in wain until they retrospectively see you were right.
Fun fact, trans people are twice as likely to serve in the military as opposed to the general population (for now)
This, however, is too general.
