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Old 06-July-2006, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by spacemanspiff
What I was refering to by Oswalds mental instability was that it seems to me that an assassination of the president would require a pretty stable thought process and if he were too unstable he might not be able to plan something like this on his own.
I don't know if it's really official usage, but in my social circle, which is full of mentally ill people of one kind or another, we use "stable" and "functional" differently. Oswald was a lot more functional than he was stable. He couldn't hold a job well, but he could hold one. People thought he was weird, but they weren't immediately inclined to cross the street when they saw him coming. He could more or less get by in society. He could more or less make and carry out plans (see his defection!). The crazy was relatively contained until the moment in which it wasn't.
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