(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.
There's a difference between excusing and explaining. The former is distasteful at best and positively harmful at worst. The latter is necessary for understanding and, hopefully, preventing future occurrences.
