In Britain a young man of 19 was arrested for killing his parents; father, 71 and mother, 60. It is reported that the boy was "a brilliant student with a rare psychological condition," and the name of his condition is: "narcissistic personality disorder," that made him "obsessed with fantasies of his own success and wealth."
Of course such a person is imaginable; we have seen in our lives any number of people with extravagant, grandiose fantasy about themselves. Watch "The Next American Idol," and there is a bunch of them. Go to a karaoke bar, and there are a dozen "cousins of Freddie Mercury."
But what's the point of diagnosing the condition as "personality disorder"? Is it a way for the medical science to intervene in the realm of criminal justice? Doesn't it suffice to say: he was heavily narcissistic and he was a murderer? Do they want to say: he killed BECAUSE he himself was suffering from a peronality disorder of a certain kind? Note how the "because" is baseless.
