A wrong headed left wing view of the mentally ill.

This is just a short post. People with more left wing values (I consider myself left wing but a moderate left winger) see humans and the human potential as positive. Humans are generally good people, even if only down deep. Remove impediments and the true human character will shine through. This clashes with a more right wing ideology that life is nasty, brutish and short, people are inherently sinful and law needs to be in place to protect us from each other. To a left winger, if people are good, what explains bad behavior? It can't be evil because people are good. Therefore, it has to be a perversion or distortion of mind aka mental illness. A person WOULD be good, would not commit acts considered evil, if there brain wasn't all messed up. This is way too simplistic. Serial killers are often not mentally ill yet commit evil acts. Thus, evil and mental illness are not synonymous. Just saying that a person being bad is crazy is often not true. And who wants to be wrong? Only the ignorant and the fearful and the, dare I say, evil?