From: Harriet Monkhouse hflysator@jarriere.demon.co.uk

Fiona wrote:

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So the fact that they presented Gul Dukat (and other Cardassians) in this very schizophrenic way appeals to me-- in

my

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experience, the same person *can* incorporate very evil and very good aspects in their personalities, and often divorce the two in very schizophrenic ways.

Um, I think it's quite possible that Dukat was schizophrenic, going by the scenes in Waltz (if I mean Waltz - I'm hopeless on non-B7 episode titles) where he hears voices, argues with hallucinations etc. But schizophrenia is not split personality (this was drummed into me as a child by my mother, who was then a psychiatric social worker) and I would prefer it if the two weren't confused.

Touche. Well, whatever it is that causes people to divorce their actions in one context from those in another context, then (I don't think I do mean split personality, at that).

ObB7: I'm sure people have to do this to live within the Federation too.

Fiona

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