Attaching the mental illness label tends to excuse the basic lack of morals and character present in both Bill & Hill.
True. Though he has always had a Nero like nature about him — and she reminds us of Caligula.
Attaching the mental illness label tends to excuse the basic lack of morals and character present in both Bill & Hill.
Exactly!! This is about lack of character, not misfiring brain neurons, or lack of neurochemicals. This is about base selfishness; no remorse. I think they are both too cut-throat to even be called narcissists. That would require some aspect of love, be it self-love, and other human emotions. These two are like baboons that kill their young.
Yes, quite true. She has shortcomings that are easily within voluntary control. Giving her a diagnosis is using the diagnosis as a pejorative label rather than documenting a lifelong pattern.
Individual behaviors, even if repeated over time, are not in themselves diagnostic. Besides a history and constellation of symptoms you must have either/or personal pain or a loss of functioning.
I think the biggest mistake people make about her is they assume she is as smart as her supporters believe. Just graduating from law school does not make one a certified smartest woman in America. If you look at what she says and does, they are behaviors of people who are over challenged by the people she is trying to impress.