is sanity overratted?

Answer 1

Yes, because everyone is eventually going to do something that will make people think they are insane. And those that don't have very boring lives.

Answer 2

It;s not only overrated , it's underused most of the time.
Actually it's a subjective term , there is no such thing -ie.a
provable set of qualities we call ''sane'' and therefore all other mindsets are deficient or are declared insane.
It's culturally biased and varies widely according to place and time.
Take an example: If you were to take a person from a tribe in
say New Guinea and fly him to the heart of New York City -do you
think that his reactions to the new sights , sounds and experiences or his explanation for these would sound sane to a westerner.? Perhaps not but this man happens to be the most
rational and well adjusted person in his village . Now what?
The same holds true in our familiar culture. Much of what we take for granted, at one time would've be declared insane. So too
that which we find aberrant or insane today could be accepted as
sane by our descendants. Anyway it will be hard to convince me
that the way we go about the world , doing the things we blandly do , without comment or even much forethought , is very sane.
We rarely look at our real actions no less our motivations.

Truly I feel that history will look back at us and declare us insane.
We may find it too difficult to argue against it's judgments.

Answer 3

I think that it is. Who is to say where the line between sanity and insanity is drawn? Also people who are profiled as insane generally tend to have a better perspective on life and the world because they do not worry about the other insignificant going ons around them.

Answer 4

Yup. Sanity is also a LEGAL definition, not a health care definition. The definition, so to say, of mental health, remains a metaphysical one in that health is about balance and finding true balance in a function, or seesaw, between an individual and his individual set of worldly conditions. Also, a true or natural definition of health, as you suspect, is difficult to perceive in the subjective context of Culture. A good rule of thumb about this is: If you are not suffering and you are not causing suffering, you are "mentally" / "psychologically" / "spiritually" / "cognitively" healthy.

Answer 5

You should ask postmodern philosopher Michael Foucault. Most types of madness are a kind of torture (ie paranoia), but there are insane people who seem incredibly happy. One has to wonder if that kind of life is better than run-of-the-mill sanity.

Answer 6

its not so bad to be insane ,maybe insanity is just another word for peace of mind..

Answer 7

Me myself and I (all three of us) think so.

Answer 8

No

Answer 9

no