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"That's not mental illness. That's evil." Roger's boss said it over lunch, about Jeffrey Dahmer, and it ended the discussion. He has been thinking about it for thirty years since. When someone shoots up a school, or walks into a mall with a knife, we reach for the same handful of words. Lunatic. Madman. Crazy. He was nuts. Every one of them points at mental illness, and nobody says that person is evil. Roger's argument is that the language did not drift there by accident. His own profession t...