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Originally Posted by rubecube
You may be "aware" of it but between this thread and your posts in other threads regarding mental illness it's pretty clear you have zero understanding of it.
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I fully understand that this guy didn't intend to do what he did. My whole point is I don't care that he didn't.
To coin a phrase from one of my favorite films, and a mantra I have always somewhat lived my life by: "The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."
Yeah, yeah, I just quoted Spock. But however you look at it. Society is far better served, locking away Vincent Li for life, than it is to coddle him, feel sorry for him, and pray he doesn't forget to take his pill and start eating babies one day.
Do I think all Schizophrenics should be locked away for life? Of course not. Do I think Schizophrenics that have proven and demonstrated to be cannibalistic murder machines should be locked away for life? Yes. One mans suffering isn't worth putting the public at a significant risk.
The family of the victim in this case is also being victimized by allowing Vincent Li to walk as a free man. Where is all the Vincent Li sympathizers sympathy for them? The family is horrified this man is being released on unsupervised day passes. Should they be forced to suffer because they don't have an "Elite interwebz PHD understanding" of mental illness like everyone that wants to hug Vincent, and cover him in sloppy wet kisses does?
As revolting as some of you find people like me, that don't sympathize with Li, I am equally revolted that you think Vincent Li's rights, trump that of the family he destroyed, and bus load of people he terrorized. I guarantee you no one person there that day, would be championing for Li's release.
Would any one of you, stand in front of Tim McLeans mother, and tell them Vincent Li is a good man?