RE: Grade school girls can't say No when asked to dance
February 13, 2018 at 11:39 am
(This post was last modified: February 13, 2018 at 11:40 am by Shell B.)
(February 13, 2018 at 5:08 am)Grandizer 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.
I haven't looked up the science for what I'm about to say, but it seems intuitive at least that one would have to be mentally ill to, at least in many/most cases, do such atrocious things as to rape or murder. When I think "evil" with reference to people, a lot of the times, I'm thinking "fucked in the head". I think it's rare that someone could be evil and yet be quite sane.
And as others have said, it doesn't mean we're using mental illness as an excuse. Rather, it's important to acknowledge that mental illness can play a contributing factor in leading to "evil" behaviour. We shouldn't ignore this possibility just because it doesn't make some people feel good about it.
Sanity in court is just being able to understand what you did was wrong (paraphrasing). You can definitely commit atrocities without having a mental illness, and mental illnesses don’t make you more prone to committing atrocities.
(February 13, 2018 at 10:19 am)LastPoet Wrote:(February 12, 2018 at 6:01 pm)Shell B Wrote: ? I think you might have popped for no reason. CD and I are on good terms, to my knowledge. If I conveyed anything to make anyone think that I was bickering with him, rather than respectfully conversing, let me clear that up now. I might have dry delivery, but I'm just chatting with him.
Huh?
How can you be confused? What was the popcorn about?
