Charles Manson, dead at age 83

[Rev. Rye]

Well, the presence of ASPD kind of negates the possibility that Charlie could recover from whatever fucked up his mind enough to make him the lunatic we all know and love in any meaningful way.

To try to figure out whether he knew at the time it was wrong could be very complex. Usually when schizophrenics commit murder(and usually when they commit crimes it's crazy but petty crimes) it's because they have delusions that they or someone else is in danger.
They think it's more or less self defense.

Apparently, Manson had delusions of a race war.
The question is, did he not see it as wrong in every single case?

It's a weird thought exercise whether they were collateral damage in his mind.

Tbh I haven't studied up on him that much.

You know, I can remember a scene from Anatomy of a Murder, where Orson Bean plays a psychiatrist who comes up to the bench during a murder trial
to explain that the defendant committed the murder under an "irresistible impulse." When the prosecutor asks if the defendant would have known right from wrong in that instance, he can only say ".. it would not have made any difference whether he knew right from wrong". Charlie didn't act on an irresistible impulse, but literally everything I've read about Manson (and it's been quite a lot) would suggest that statement is as good an answer as any about the state of Charlie's mind.