[lbo-talk] Federal Air Marshal kills innocent ...

[Arash]

This is a bit peripheral to the discussion but I don't think there is a
large correlation between intelligence and bipolar disorder.  Yes, there are
many highly intelligent people with bipolar, but that is also the case with
a number of mental disorders.  I'm not sure there is an over-representation
in this case.  Also I think you have to be a little wary of mental health
diagnoses of long-dead historical figures.  To use your own set for an
example, there is a lot disagreement over the kind of depression Lincoln
suffered from.  It might be an interesting form of historical/biographical
analysis but mental health diagnoses are pretty trick when the individual is
alive, it's a bit like pin-the-tail on the DSM-IV when they've long since
passed.  

Arash  

BTW, if that guy was indeed diagnosed bipolar, I take
exception to your charcacterisation 


> This man would likely have trouble telling you who
> he was, let alone
> understanding something like implicit consent. You

People with bipolar are usually highly intelligent and
motivated individuals, including some of the most
famous like Lincoln, VanGogh, Virginia Woolf or Sylvia
Plath.  They usually know exactly what they are doing
- it is just that their condition impairs their
judgment.  In the manic phase they may be working like
mad (which is seen as a sign of creativity), or go on
a shopping spree (which is seen as irresponsible) or
engage in promiscuous sexual relations (which is seen
as good by those relations, but bad by most others),
or do some other creative, foolish or outrageous
things.  In the depressive phase, the crash landing is
terrible to the point that people off themselves (cf.
VanGogh, Wolf, and Plath).  So if the guy killed at
the Miami Airport was indeed bipolar, it would not at
all suprise me if this was a form of suicide by air
marshalls.  This is, of course, but pure speculation -
all I am arguing here is that bipolar people are not
zombies not knowing what they are doing.

Wojtek
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