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[Shell B]

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

So you think sanity in court, or for legal purposes, is always truly reflective of the criminal's state of mind? There's often a conflict between what the laws rule and what philosophy and/or psychology say about free will.

Also, I do NOT think all types of mental illnesses increase the likelihood of atrocities.

Bold mine. You'll have to clarify this statement for me. Do I think the rule reflects a criminal's state of mind? That doesn't make sense. Do I think the rulings based on the sanity laws are always reflective of the criminal's state of mind? Well, no. The court isn't infallible. Do I think the ability to know right from wrong is a fair judgment of sanity? Yes.

I don't think ANY mental illness increased the likelihood of atrocities. I know someone's about to whip out schizophrenia, and I would caution against that. Schizophrenia is not the demon it's made out to be in horror movies. A few insane criminals hear voices and people think schizophrenics are dangerous. It's absurd. Another one people love to demonize is post-partum depression. There have been a handful of cases where severely depressed AND delusional women have harmed their babies. For the vast majority of women with PPD, they are much less likely to hurt their babies. In fact, they live in terror of accidentally hurting them.

Anyway, it's actually much more common for mentally ill people to be victims than perpetrators, and it seems like any bump in criminality among the mentally ill can be explained by environmental factors or co-occurring drug abuse.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newslette...d-violence

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Wow. I made a remark about Elliott Rodger to point out the consequences of this plan, and the thread got derailed into questions of how culpable mental illness makes a criminal.

Oh, well. They can split it if they want to.