• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ok, but like, this final part:

    believing that there was no wrong in murdering, due to the severity of their own delusions.

    Can that not be extended to the actions of the insurrectionists on J6, or Trumps multiple attempts at a coup? If they truly believed the election was actually stolen? I’m not arguing this should be the case, but self believe to me isn’t sufficient. Righteously believing yourself to be correct doesn’t make you correct.

    Also, I don’t know that any kind of ‘sound mind’ or insanity argument really has any meaning when we’re talking about a group of people on the order of, conservatively 1 million Americans, maybe as high as 15-25 million Americans? Some where between a half a percent and 15% of US citizens are basically, bat shit insane, when it comes to their material world view.