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Originally Posted by Reaper
If someone was not responsible for stealing your car would you sentence him to prison for it? If someone was not responsible for hitting your car then would their insurance pay for your claim?
Not responsible means not responsible. You can't say that a person is not responsible by reason of mental defect and then punish them for a crime because society needs its pound of flesh. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sometimes in order for justice to be just vengeance isn't possible because it isn't always just. Revenge is a natural human reaction to the situation but it isn't always an enlightened one.
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And the victims are not responsible for their death but they are dead so that doesn't matter, what matters is the physical being that killed them is not responsible for their death because he was mentally someone else. So who is responsible? That someone is in his head commanding the body, it may not be Matthew de Grood but its someone that is staying with him in his head. Can we guarantee it won't happen again?
Mental Illness is a very real issue that needs a lot more attention so that people can get help before actions take them beyond help. Its a sad thing to think that this may not have happened if he had got help and/or medication but it did happen and its too late.