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Originally Posted by Royle9
Lets remember Vince Li the decapitating cannibal greyhound scumlord. Few years in a padded cell before getting freedom visits to his hometown.
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A psychotic episode where he thought Jesus was telling him to kill the alien next to him to save his life. When the episode ended he pleaded for death. This was not a scumlord. It was a mentally unstable individual who went through a psychotic episode that, extremely unfortunately, ended the life of young man.
Again, if you think Li had any sort of real control over his thought process then you must think it's normal to have Jesus come and tell you to kill demons. Seek help.
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He was deemed fit enough to stand trial,
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Does not preclude from having a psychotic episode at the time of the murders.
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I'm not discounting the notion that he is definitely mentally unstable to the point where he's talking about werewolves and zombies and whatnot, but I guess I just don't see how that should have any effect on the punishment for his crime.
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Well it depends on your notion of what the criminal justice system is. If you feel it should strictly be for punishment, which it isn't, then you also have to be responsible. You can't be punished for something you didn't have control over, that much is clear to any sane person. So how would a mentally unfit person who doesn't have control over his thoughts and actions, if that is the case, receive just punishment?
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Stable enough to have a job.
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Does not preclude him having a psychotic episode at the time of the murders.
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Stable enough to have a university education.
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Does not preclude him having a psychotic episode at the time of the murders.
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Stable enough to understand what he was doing (he told the police)
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Does not preclude him having a psychotic episode at the time of the murders.
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There's lots of crazy people out there in the world, but not all of them are committing a mass murder. Maybe he does have some mental health problems, but who's to say he's not playing at least some of it up to make it seem worse than it is. I guess that's why they've got professionals working this case, only time will tell.
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But you didn't wait, nor did you care about the outcome of the Vince Li trial. You already called the justice system a joke and don't seem to care whether or not he was actually having a psychotic episode or was mentally stable at the time of the murders. There's been 0 evidence presented so far to conclude that he was mentally healthy, it may come, but right now there's just a whole lot of evidence that he was mentally unfit.