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Originally Posted by Captain_Obvious
Again, I don't care what the reason was.
He cut off someone's head and cannibalized them.
I couldn't care less that there are legal defenses for instances of clinical insanity.
We're not talking about a soldier or police officer suffering from post traumatic stress.
We're talking about a guy who - on a bus - cut someone's head off with a knife and started eating pieces of them.
"He didn't know what he was doing when he did that" is a horrible excuse. When someone in our society goes that far off the deep end and does something that despicable they should be locked up for good.
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In my example, I'm not talking about PTSD soldiers after the fact - I'm talking about soldiers in the act of war being just as morally culpable for crimes (including murder) than Vince Li is for his. This is based on your very own logic.
We get that you are a moral absolutist. I'm just showing you the absurd lengths to which your one-size-fits-all approach to criminal law and sentencing can be taken. But for some reason you are now trying to allow for exceptions in one case, and not the other, when you don't really have a logical leg to stand on.