Evil acts and mental disorders
Evil acts cannot be explained based on mental disorders. The explanation for this is that not all evildoers are mentally ill. When I hear of acts of evil, my thoughts instantly turn to evil and sanity. Mentally fit, and sane people perpetrate the majority of societal evils. While mentally ill people are responsible for certain crimes in the community, it is essential to remember that they are generally aware of their acts. The majority of them use what other people think of them to carry out the evil they want (Wurtzel, 769). A number of them acknowledge their situations and resort to evil as a way of bashing out their frustrations.
Awareness of evil actions
I, therefore, do not approve the concept that evil perpetrators are mental illness and psychopathology. I believe that all evils doers are aware of their actions regardless of the motives driving them to perpetrate evil. A good example for this is that, in any case, hearing in a court of law, no one single evil perpetrator pleads guilty. They are all ever trying to fight for themselves. They will plead not guilty because they are aware of their personality and no single evil action happens without their knowledge. It can, therefore, say that they are usually in control and in a position to control any evil from them (Wurtzel, 769). I, therefore, conclude that the person is both sane and evil. This is because, before a person does anything evil, personality reality hits him or her. The person is in a position to predict the consequences that are likely to follow as a result of the evil he or she is about to commit. Based on that argument it can be perceived that during evil perpetration, a person is usually aware of the present and the actions he or she is about to perform.
Work Cited
Wurtzel, Elizabeth. Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2014. Internet resource.
