What got me most about the "Mary Poppins" example is that it was the chimney sweep scene. People used coal-fires for heating so needed chimneys which needed to be swept every now & then. Chimney sweeps swept chimneys. There was soot up chimneys. Some soot came down the chimney when it was being swept & some fell on the chimney sweeps. Soot was black. What colour were the chimney sweeps faces supposed to be? It's the same as seeing a coal-miner coming out of a mine & expecting him to have a clean face.
That's ridiculous though I think that the stigma attached to some mental health problems needs to be done away with. The way to go about that though is to acknowledge that there are all different types of mental health problems that affect different people in different ways & not everyone with a mental health problem is crazy or a danger to the public although some are. Some criminals play on mental health to get easier punishments. I think the world needs more mental health awareness. Psychopaths can be dangerous & need dealing with as do some schizophrenics. Anxiety & depression is understandable in some circumstances as is insomnia & some phobias. There were & are some extremely intelligent people who have suffered from mental health conditions. Examples include Albert Einsteinn, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte & John Nash. Creative people are more susceptible to mental health issues. I think stereotyping people is all wrong because not all people who come under 1 label are the same. I suffered from anxiety & depression but I never had the concentration & memory problems associated with those conditions as the reason why I suffered from the conditions were due to the circumstances I was under. I'm afraid I can't answer your question. There are all different reasons & theories about why people commit crimes & these different theories & reasons don't explain all crimes. Mental illness is only 1 of them though it's very easy to think that people are sick, bitter & twisted because they did what most people wouldn't even dream of. We've also got to think about the circumstances people were under because if someone poses a threat to you, you're going to retaliate & it's hard to prove you acted in self-defence & only used reasonable force. However, I won't go into more detail about criminological theories because this thread is about P.C. going O.T.T. & is supposed to be a bit of fun & I don't want to annoy everyone.
