Re: The Lucifer Principle

[Mike Scoles]

Paranoid delusions may be real to someone with schizophrenia.  If they are the
basis for harm to others, then "reality" must be less subjective.  If someone
wants to "beat the devil" out of me,  or interfere with my freedoms to save me
from the devil, I've got to question their reality.
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Louis_Schmier wrote:

> It is real to the believers.  They act and respond as if it is real.
> Doesn't that make it "real," or, at least, their reality?

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