(February 13, 2018 at 5:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(February 13, 2018 at 11:34 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: What if that person has been, over his or her 40 years alive, a good person, but has a psychotic break, complete with hallucinations? Does that mean their crime arose out of innate badness?
As I said earlier, the exception is with legitimate insanity. What you describe above sounds like that.
Well, it pays for us to understand why any particular crime occurred, and chalking it up to mental disorder isn't excusing it, necessarily.
