Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-694244-20160921150205/@comment-26884760-20161205165752

misanthropy is not a mental illness, it is a philosophy or a way of seeing the world - it's like saying nihilism or absurdism is mental illness.. yes, many misanthropes have mental illness such as paranoia, delusion etc but the misanthropy itself is rarely the mental illness.. just as racism is not mental illness, people aren't born misanthropic, they are taught to be so via their interactions with the world.. these same negative interactions (bullying, war etc) can, as mentioned above, give them other mental illness but I'd not put racism or misanthropy themselves as mental illness.

also in fiction (unlike real life) there are characters that are Demonic - in that they do horrific things we associate with stereotypical "insane" people but they aren't insane.. they're just evil (it has not been proven if real life examples of these  "for the evil" kind of characters exists, if it does it is exceptionally rare compared to fiction).