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Only a confused jumble of chaotic notions will result from all this reading. That jumble is not merely useless, but it also tends to make the unfortunate possesor of it conceited. For he considers himself a well-educated person and thinks that he understands something of life. He believes that he has aquired knowledge. Whereas the truth is that every increase in such knowledge draws him more and more away from real life until he finally ends up in some sanitorium, or takes to politics and becomes a parlimentary deputy. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Mental illness" is an inherently incoherent combination of a medical and a psychological concept, but popular because it legitimizes the use of psychiatric force to control and limit deviance from societal norms.

Antisocial personality disorder (APD or ASPD), or dissocial personality disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that interprets antisocial and impulsive behaviours as symptoms of a personality disorder. Psychiatry defines only pathological antisocial behavior and does not address potential benefits of positive antisocial behavior, nor define the meaning of "social" in contrast to "antisocial".

Types of behavior which are often described as irrational include:

* fads and fashions
* crowd behavior
* offense or anger at a situation that has not yet occurred
* unrealistic expectations
* belief in logical fallacies
* falling victim to confidence tricks
* belief in the supernatural without evidence
* stock-market bubbles

The Big Man:
No, you do not pass judgment because you sympathize with them. A deprived childhood... and a homicide really isn't necessarily a homicide, right?

The only thing you can blame is circumstances. Rapists and murderers may be the victims
according to you, but l call them dogs and if they're lapping up their own vomit the only way to stop them is with the lash.

Grace Mulligan:
But dogs only obey their own nature. So why shouldn't we forgive them?

The Big Man:
Dogs can be taught many useful things but not if we forgive them every time they obey their own nature.

Grace Mulligan:
So, l'm arrogant. l'm arrogant because l forgive people?

The Big Man:
My God. Can't you see how condescending you are when you say that?

You have this preconceived notion that nobody, listen that nobody can't possibly attain the same high ethical standards as you so you exonerate them l can not think of anything
more arrogant than that. You, my child... my dear child you forgive others with excuses that you would never in the world permit for yourself.

-Dogville

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