About the guy in Times Square. Did it occur to you that instead of being mentally ill, as you suggest, he might be cognitively impaired? There is a difference, you know.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "cognitively impaired" here? Would this not be a type of mental illness? (It sounds sort of like the kind of thing that could be a category in the DSM-III, or DSM-IV, or whatever number they're up to now.) Or do you mean something like "low IQ", or "mentally retarded"?
And a conscience would be the opposite of a yetzer hara - one is a voice that tells you to do good; the other is a voice that tells you to do bad.
I meant to write yetzer hattov. However, I was also thinking that the conscience could be a combination of the two "yetzarim". If you are interested, I could post more about this idea in a further post).
Re: Suicide Bombers, & Suicide
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "cognitively impaired" here? Would this not be a type of mental illness? (It sounds sort of like the kind of thing that could be a category in the DSM-III, or DSM-IV, or whatever number they're up to now.) Or do you mean something like "low IQ", or "mentally retarded"?
And a conscience would be the opposite of a yetzer hara - one is a voice that tells you to do good; the other is a voice that tells you to do bad.
I meant to write yetzer hattov. However, I was also thinking that the conscience could be a combination of the two "yetzarim". If you are interested, I could post more about this idea in a further post).