Jonathan - I disagree with your statement "The insane are people whose
value system causes suffering TO THEMSELVES" If I prefer having
sexual relations with other men, but I live in a homophobic society -
my value system is gonna cause me suffering. Not because I'm "insane"
- but because my values are in conflict with greater society's. I
still defy anyone to define "insanity" (it doesn't exist). There are
people. Each acts in their own way. When you get enough people
together, a "general acceptance" of what is right and normal appears.
Is there really a "normal"? No. Just the appearance of normal.
Therefore, is there an abnormal? How can there be an "abnormal" if
that would be "other than what is 'normal' and there is no normal?"?
A semi related thought....And what if the "misfitting" causes no
pain? What if the catatonic schizophrenic is perfectly comfortable
within their inner hideaway? Back to homosexuality - at one point the
DSM (the mental health "bible") listed homosexuality as a mental
illness. Then that was changed to only include those homosexuals who
were "troubled" by being homosexual. But since they could only be
troubled by their homosexuality relative to the society they lived in,
that was also removed.
Shalom
David Lind
Trickster@postmark.net
P.S. Geoffrey - try substituting "belief" for philosophy.
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