Comments by "William Burke" (@cornholio812) on "Should the Mentally Ill Own Guns? Answering Tim Pool" video.

  1. Yep! The late psychiatrist Thomas Szasz wrote a famous book about this, THE MYTH OF MENTAL ILLNESS". He explains that "mental illness" is, at best, a really bad metaphor. Why a "metaphor"? Because illnesses have a pathology to them, from microorganisms to tumorous growths to chemical and hormonal imbalances. This thing the "Mental Health" Industry wants to imply are "diseases" can't possibly qualify, lacking any and all ways to actually be one. Sure, there are actual organic brain diseases, but they are not "mental" in any possible way. Instead, Szasz insisted, quite convincingly, that these mental disorders (you know, as in "OUT OF ORDER") are simply artifices that people construct because they have severe problems coping with different kinds of situations, and these artifices are self-constructs to isolate themselves from having to deal with those problems in a world that seems to them to be growing in complexity from day to day. Most libraries will have it. I urge people to read it and begin to see the world in a new way. Handing over our lives to "health professionals" who don't understand reality any better than we do cannot be the answer.
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  2. Very well-explained, and briefly to boot! Except it's "fewer people", not less. A short version of this is if it's countable (even if it's such an astronomically large number the ability to actually count them all is absurd), then it's "fewer". There are fewer stars in the Milky Way than in the Andromeda Galaxy, NOT less stars. "I had fewer beers than Eli at the party," not less beers. The positive version is "greater than" instead of "more than". The distinction is a little blurrier on the positive side, but the rule is there nonetheless.
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