edit: not the place to discuss this.
> need to be in hospital
It clearly is a mental health issue.
Whether it's a disqualifying, treatable, etc is a valid argument but it is certainly a mental health issue.
But in this scenario and many others there are strong distinctions between people who commit suicide, people who commit murder-suicide and people who commit mass murder-suicide. Understanding that distinction is important because one is a risk to themselves only and another is a risk to others around them.
The flaw is of course we bucket all of them the same way for pilots, which leads to the last two stewing and hiding.
> there are strong distinctions between people who commit suicide, people who commit murder-suicide and people who commit mass murder-suicide
Sure.
The degrees of accepted violence is cultural. Plenty of people kill out of anger but anger does not make one insane. Unless you defined criminal behavior as mental illness.
Also I believe you're misunderstanding what was said, people as a whole, as in humanity, commit all kinds of atrocities. Mental illness is not required to be cruel or callous.
Is every soldier mentally ill simply because they are capable of killing on command?
I.e. she shot and killed her attempted rapist.
You've given me a shitty idea that might work some of the time: We give every airline pilot a pistol. This way if they ever feel the urge to kill themselves they can do it in a hotel room instead of with the airplane. It ensures that the most convenient way for a pilot to die isn't crashing their plane. It will probably slightly increase the number of pilots who kill themselves, but decrease the number who do it by crashing their plane.
...hey, I did say it was a shitty idea.