A man walks into the door, pulls out a gun, then starts shooting at numerous people. Another man inserts a bomb in a building. The outcome is death for many people. The central response is not on the wrongfulness of his action, but that he is a paranoid schizophrenic.
Just what this does is to put a label on other persons who have a related condition. The more the exposure, the more the effect. Does this mean that, if one person who has schizophrenia acts in a harmful manner, all will act in the same way?
What about the person with epilepsy? Should he/she be regarded as an epileptic? Is that how such individuals want to be stereotyped? Immediately, such profiling creates an image in the mind of the observer, depending on how the observer views the specific condition.
I just believe that we need to be a bit more sensitive as to how our references to such individuals affect them. Not that I'm all that much into "political correctness." But I do like the concept of the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
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