Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Peter Hitchens debates Rod Liddle on drugs, terrorism and mental health | SpectatorTV" video.

  1. Some of the Islamic attackers were mental health cases no doubt about that but several were purely ideological in nature and nothing to do with mental health. Some of the terrorist acts involved complex planning and training and were most certainly not mental health.
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  2. Some of the islamic terrorist attacks are cases are mental health. Several were not and were ideological in nature and involved complex planning. So while Peter is making a good point he then is trying to use that to cover everything. Rod point is more about the media and the direction of that media.
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  3. Alcohol is not responsible for 50% of violence. What is happening is that 50% of the violent incidents involve a person who has consumed alcohol and it is an excuse for people to be violent. Most people that are violent and consume alcohol do have behavioral issues outside of the consumption.
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  4. There is a very strong chance that if you did consume those drugs that you still could not commit those acts of extreme violence. No matter how much I drink I could never be violent.
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  5.  @williamh5780  Sorry but he may have a point to make about drugs. Most of them are neurochemical actors that can and could have extreme changes within the brain. DO not be so quick to dispel them from the argument because you may feel that such a topic is not placed.
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  6. You will find that a lot of them probably watch violence on TV and also probably are already in the mental health system. Most issues probably start in childhood and are not addressed early enough.
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  7. And what it goes against your Weltanschauung orientation.
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  8. Automatic weapons have nothing to do with morality. A hunting rifle could just be as dangerous as could a motor vehicle.
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  9. But he is making a valid point about substances that are ally only in social use for the last 60 years and with only wide spread use in the last 20 years.
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  10.  @stoufer2000  Stalin was such an example.
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