5 Feet of Fury

Jim Goad on murder, Slender Man and the ‘mental illness cop-out’

Jim Goad writes:

But if the allegations against the pair of preteen girls in Wisconsin are true, blaming it on “mental illness” is as dumb as blaming it on Slender Man. The simplest explanation—yet the hardest for most humans to accept—would be that the girls did it because they chose to do it.