When I say labeling an entire culture as mentally ill, I mean labelling each individual in the culture as such. I was not referring to a collective mind.
And halachic stringency is not a mental illness. It's about the person's approach to it. Paying attention to every detail is fine. A constant fear that one is breaking a law, leading to an impairment of function? That is not fine.
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Re: Evil, Mental Illness, and OCD
Date: 2005-07-15 10:31 pm (UTC)And halachic stringency is not a mental illness. It's about the person's approach to it. Paying attention to every detail is fine. A constant fear that one is breaking a law, leading to an impairment of function? That is not fine.