In a message dated 3/24/04 9:12:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> By contrast I don't find persuasive the attempt to equate someone who > >> cannot >> distinguish voiced in his head from reality with the average person's >> internal impulse to sneak into the movie theater without paying. > >If they cannot distinguish the voices in their heads from reality, then > >why do they ignore the voices when the cost of listening to them is >raised? I really think "cannot" is the wrong word. You could say it's > >somehow more difficult, but "cannot" is too strong, given how most >schizophrenics behave.
No. I didn't say that they can't ignore them, I said that they can't distinguish them from reality. You can ignore Billy Joel's advice to never argue with a crazy man, but that doesn't mean that you can't distinguish between the real voice coming from the crazy man and you the "voice" in your head that "tells you" to punch him.
