RE: If god were real...
April 2, 2013 at 6:55 pm
(This post was last modified: April 2, 2013 at 7:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
People -do- try to use that defense (god made me do it).....and sometimes- it works...sadly
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/03/childr...?_s=PM:LAW
"Mom who said she killed on God's orders acquitted"
as to your question more specifically GC, most of our laws (esp criminal) have something to do with the idea of intent, of "free will" - that's not an indicator that these things exist - that;s just how our laws are setup. Your omniscient busybody would put the lie to that, but courts don't care - because the shit that you dredge out of your holy book doesn't factor into how they run "their business". In this case, she wasn't acquitted, for example, because anyone thought god made her do it - but because the defense made the case that she was insane - an easy case to make...when you can open it out with "this grown adult believes in fairies".
http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/04/03/childr...?_s=PM:LAW
"Mom who said she killed on God's orders acquitted"
as to your question more specifically GC, most of our laws (esp criminal) have something to do with the idea of intent, of "free will" - that's not an indicator that these things exist - that;s just how our laws are setup. Your omniscient busybody would put the lie to that, but courts don't care - because the shit that you dredge out of your holy book doesn't factor into how they run "their business". In this case, she wasn't acquitted, for example, because anyone thought god made her do it - but because the defense made the case that she was insane - an easy case to make...when you can open it out with "this grown adult believes in fairies".
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