Philosophical question o' the day

[madbaker]

"Those the gods would destroy, they first drive mad."  -Euripedes

I would think that it would be more self-destructive to be aware of your life crumbling around you.  Or is that a modern perspective, that an insane person is not aware or not responsible for his actions?

What I'm reading: Eric Flint, 1634: the Ram Rebellion

Comments

[gaudete1066.livejournal.com]

Maybe the madness would be the keen awareness of ones surroundings going ka-boink, and the simultaneous blinding of those around who would be turned to for help, rendering them oblivious or insensate to the destroyee's plight. Eh? Ya think? P'raps *that* would be the madness--being unable to convince anyone that you're in a bad way, really truly!

Destroyee: "Loooook! Can't you see it??!" (holds up limb covered with rapidly creeping leprosy)

Oblivious person: "Oh stop it. There's nothing there!"

Destroyee: (twitches)

Or was that a rhetorical question?

Good question.

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

...don't know.