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does madness exist?

lutherangerman

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Irene, I am more concerned about people who are like Hitler, touched by madness but without having already sunken into such evil. I read a good biography of Hitler once, and it did not depict the young Hitler to be so thoroughly evil. He actually had some pretty good things to him, for instance he loved his mother and nursed her when she got cancer. If he would have had a real friend, for example a committed christian, who had loved him and taught him some things, who knows how differently history may have turned out.
 
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IreneAdler

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sure, but one could say the opposite about mother teresa (th? sp? no telling). If she had NOT had the influences she had or had a friend who was not above the board that was close could she have been different...??? idk. Supposition and should haves and hope sos don't make much difference. Sometimes you cannot help mental illness with friendship. Depends on how bad it is. For example, borderline personality disorder is considered non curable and is frankly a pretty good example of someone who would be like the kind you're worried about. I'm not sure that good friends in Christ can fix that or even mitigate it.
 
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