(February 12, 2018 at 6:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 12, 2018 at 6:32 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: As I said in my post, the bolded portion was in reference to her latter statement, not to her statement that it wasn't an excuse.
The 2 go together though. If you say a person raped and killed someone because they are simply mentally ill but not a bad person, you are using mental illness as an excuse for the atrocity they commited.
Do they? I don't think so.
We still prosecute, convict, and incarcerate (or alternatively institutionalize) such individuals. It doesn't justify their behavior. It doesn't release them from accountability.
In what way are we excusing them, again?
