User blog comment:Panzysoldat/PE Proposal - Patti O'Connor/@comment-28775608-20200112070252/@comment-1705775-20200112214405

mental illness is just that, an illness.. it does not excuse pre-planned violence.. if someone kills in a rash, disorganized manner and has no real control over it (Leatherface) then there's a case from criminal insanity - otherwise mental illness does not actually prevent a character knowing right from wrong.. serial-killers are mentally ill, doesn't change the fact they are also criminals.

like all illness suffering a mental disease does not magically make you any more or less vile, that is something that is in-born.. outside of extreme examples of dissociation or mental lapse (again, Leatherface) people who commit horrendous and criminal acts would do so even without mental illness, they are violent criminals who happen to be mentally ill.. that's all.. the mental illness doesn't make them that way (though it may contribute to them acting out pre-existing violence / fantasies).