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Several people killed, others injured after vehicle drives into Vancouver street festival crowd (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 13 points 4 days ago

Is it possible to commit a terrorist act and not have mental health issues? Pretty sure this is still terrorism.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

To be a tertorist act it needs to be intended to cause terror. If the guy was having a psychotic episode and didn't know what he was doing it would not be terrorism.

[-] LadyAutumn 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A small Filipino cultural festival at a school was attacked. I am skeptical that this was a random act of violence. Nothing is impossible, but I think that it is much more likely that this was a targeted attack. Wait till they get the suspects computer, internet history, etc.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

Sure. That's a very specific short-lived mental health crisis. A narrow subset of people with mental health issues.

[-] Dearche@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Having strong ideological beliefs on top of being desperate doesn't mean you have mental illness by a massive margin. Most terrorists at most are depressed, not mentally ill. These are two radically different things. Just because someone is a danger to themselves and others doesn't make them terrorists either.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 3 days ago

No. If you think that some group of people is superior to another group of people, and its justifiable to use violence against everyone in the inferior group, you have a mental illness.

Thats why we have correctional facilities, so these people can be separated from society while they receive treatment for their illness.

[-] Dearche@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

That's not mental illness, that's having immoral beliefs. Being racist doesn't get you put into correctional facilities even if you advocate for the use of force against groups you don't like. If that was true, than Israel would be one of the world's largest correctional facilities in the world.

Or maybe the US, considering how they elected Trump.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago

That is mental illness. Most Israelis should be sent to the Hague to receive treatment for their mental illness.

And at least 30% of the US Americans should be given free treatment for their illness as well.

[-] Dearche@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

By your definition, 70% of the world should be locked up in asylums. This isn't an illness, it's ideals and values incompatible with those that you personally hold. From their perspective, you who have no problems condemning an entire nation to the block is the one with mental illness by your own definition.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Yes. When that's the only option left. Many movements around the world have employed what we now refer to as terrorism to affect change. Including ones that are currently not considered terrorist.