• Lobster@lemmy.ml
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    Yes, Dahner is probably a good example of what I’m talking about: the conjunction of mistreatment and organic brain disorders. His parents denied scientists at Fresno permission to examine his brain before cremation, so we can’t be sure exactly what was wrong with him, but we know he was an alcoholic and the son of a mentally ill mother.

    Charles Whitman is another: beaten by his father, lost his brother to murder, plus a tumour on his amygdala.


    The point the English professors are making is that the new generation of students see monsters entirely as victims of circumstances. It’s an ideological belief.

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      The point the English professors are making is that the new generation of students see monsters entirely as victims of circumstances.

      No, thats the point the Sun (a shit rag of a paper) was trying to get you to think. The professor who made the comment the Sun abused to make a shitty tweet said that students consider it more a creature than a monster, and how it shaped his teaching, and he himself sees the novel as a question of sentience and medical ethics.

      It’s an ideological belief.

      No.