Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-04-26]: Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo that "80%" of a psychiatric report that found him insane in relation to his 77 killings in two attacks last July is "lies" [source: BBC News]. What is the matter with our society? Why do we insist on naming “crazy” everything that scares us? Can’t we stand the fact that a person can be perfectly sane and still hate other people? What is it that we want to protect? The status of “logic” or the status of a degraded society?(c) Philosophy WIRES - Commenting world news from philosophy's perspective...
