NOTHING???
I tossed it in as an afterthought, so it needn't have been considered to have said anything other than what it said.
The point wasn't to draw grandiose, all-encompassing lessons but to suggest that perhaps "drug treatment" alone isn't an answer to all cases, not that schizophrenics in general are "extremely dangerous" and commit millions of random murders or something.
That this is a stark case doesn't change the idea. The father complained that he couldn't get treatment for his son, who had had many outbursts of uncontrolled anger. A little shocking, given the outcome.
By the way, what do you think that the destructive conclusion was that I drew from my amateur ignorance?
Peter Kosenko
.... another waste of a post
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:57:35 -0500
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>> By the way, the Japanese school slasher was supposedly on some sort of psychotropic medication as an outpatient "maintenance" case (actually, he probably wasn't an "out"-anything, since I think he was simply given the drugs and told to take them). "Drug treatment" alone apparently didn't help him deal with whatever problems he had.
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>This episode will reinforce a lot of sheer ignorance. The point of
>departure for rational consideration of this is that such violence is
>extraordinarily rare; it is rare even among sufferers from schizophrenia
>who are _not_ receiving treatment. Accordingly, _nothing_ follows from
>the episode. There is nothing to be learned from it. But no doubt
>millions of amateurs of various sorts will draw incredibly profound and
>destructive lessons nevertheless.
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>Carrol
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