Reply #31: What makes anyone think that reichbots aren't due compassion?

[TahitiNut]

If I were to opine (similar to Janeane Garofalo) that a person who supports Bush/Cheney has a mental disorder, why would that indicate a lack of compassion on my part?

Let's be clear. As a liberal, I support the rights and liberties of individual human beings and not organizations (governmental, corporate, or otherwise) that subordinate individual human beings to some authoritarian/autocratic "pecking order" that cedes power and wealth to the few at the cost of the many. I am supportive of the well-being of all human beings, including reichbots.

A pragmatic definition of "mental illness" is based upon whether the person poses a danger to themselves or others. I see anyone who supports the superior 'right' (entitlement) to wealth and power for those already wealthy and powerful as posing a very real and present danger to both themselves and others.

I don't hate the ill; I hate the illness.