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My argument here is that sane and balanced people do not behave in inappropriate ways.

Mental illness comes in many different flavours.

Some sufferers are high functioning and others all the way down to catatonic levels.

Whilst not necessarily an excuse, ignoring that point isn't helpful for those caught in the grip of dysfunctions either.

I do understand your position though.

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There is "inappropriate behaviour" throughout Shakespeare. But it was never necessary for the bard to employ these types of terms. He wrote 200 years before psychology was invented. The audience of the day understood what they were seeing well enough. Human nature hasn't changed, despite the ever - growing and increasingly insulting lexicon of human shortcomings from which psycho- babble makes a living.

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I remember, more or less, when the word 'inappropriate' became psychobabble in popular culture. My sister would use it reflexively any time she didn't disapproved of something. She would wag her finger and say "that's in-a-pro-pri-ate" like she was talking to a child.

Near as I could figure it meant something like "I don't like that so you shouldn't either."

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