What else can we blame Rodger, Elliot's actions on?

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38. I'm not talking about what a court would consider incompetent..

I'm talking about someone clinically psychotic, or having lost touch with reality in one way or another.

Having worked with the mentally ill, I can tell you that's a dangerous assumption to make.

There are people getting along with their lives, dressing themselves, raising their kids, balancing their checkbooks, planning for their retirement.. who nevertheless have firmly held convictions at odds with what the rest of us would consider reality. If you had a conversation with them and never touched on their particular divergence from reality, you'd never know.

These divergences from reality could very well make them unable to evaluate right from wrong the same as you or I.