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Originally Posted by 1stLand
It's a slippery slope arguing that a schizophrenic episode (for a man with no known public record of schizophrenia) caused the killings. How does one prove one occurred or didn't occur?
It sets a dangerous precedent for people want to commit a murder and are looking for a loophole to escape severe punishment.
Some of you on this Board seem to think a drunk driver is more guilty of killing 5 people with his vehicle than Matt de Grood is of stabbing 5 people at a party.
I can't believe some of you on this board.
It reaffirms my belief that there is no hope for humanity or society
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this is hyper reactive, the people trying to rationalize his behavior are exhibiting empathy and trying to find positives in the situation. We are all aware he is guilty, it was so horrifyingly traumatic that his guilt is an afterthought, the question now is how the community moves on from such an event. Saying that you've lost hope for humanity because people want to soften the blow of such a horrible trauma is unnecessary.
Guilt isn't what's in question, there's so much confusion and so little information people are just trying to make it seem less sinister and more humane. If you don't agree with that that's fine, no need to condemn someone's existence like that though. There's plenty of things to give hope for humanity, society not as much.