Do people not understand the purpose and wisdom of parables anymore? Are we so much smarter now that all basic human knowledge is shunned as being old and outdated?
There are variations of a story (fable, parable, ...) which has been retold in several popular movies in the past 20 or so years. One version is about a woman who saves a snake from freezing to death, and another about a frog or tortoise that agrees to give a scorpion a ride to cross the river. Both end in similar language, "It's not my fault I killed you. You knew what I was." The lesson being that everyone and everything that breathes has a natural behavior, and if you deny that fact, it's your fault when the situation turns bad.
We are not just affirming mental illnesses, but we actually celebrate them as a society. The Internet provides a forum for any and every form of psychoses to parade in front of the world even as many.most of us who see the nature of their condition as harmful -- to children, to adults and to themselves.
The transgender sports, public bathroom and school shower controversies have catapulted transgender issues into the public arena front and center. The Left has circled their wagons so tightly they can't even define what a woman is any longer -- a classification that's as old as sexual reproduction among all animals and plants.
Now we are seeing a fast rising rate of mentally ill people who claim to be trans committing mass murder -- no different than others who committed murders because the neighbor's dog told them to or because they wanted to beat the "high score" of mass shooting with the highest body count like it's a video game.
If anyone says they are surprised with the number of transgender mass shooters, they are probably one of the trans rights supporters pushing for biological men in ladies rooms, school locker rooms and women's-only sports.
They knew who the mentally ill were, but they treated them the same as mentally healthy people anyway. Who's fault is it when bad things happen?