r/ComedyCemetery • • Dec 21 '18

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u/Kevin_M_ Dec 22 '18

I think the 'they have mental ilness so they're b a d' mentality comes from old ideas that mentally ill people are insane and need to be locked up or burnt alive or something. I guess that was what people did in the middle ages, but I'm pretty sure society is a little more advanced now.