(February 12, 2018 at 6:49 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(February 12, 2018 at 6:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: 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?
If you say someone rapes and kills people due to mental illness, and NOT due to being a bad person, you're using their mental illness as an excuse for their behavior. By giving their character a break. "That rapist murder is not really a bad guy. He just has a mental illness."
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