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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Not since the days of the E=NG thread has a circle jerk been this strong in a thread. Disagree with the NCR crowd and suddenly you're right in the middle of it.
My position is if you kill someone (5 people no less), mental illness does not excuse your actions. While DeGrood might not have been ''himself'', someone slaughtered 5 people. Who was it? DeGrood. But god forbid you disagree with the notion of keeping him away from the rest of society even if he's on his meds. Medication we are trusting him to take by himself at some point.
IMO justice for the family should be the absolute #1 priority in cases like this. The rehabilitation of the perpetrator should be down the list. But god forbid I say something like that because now the NCR crowd will be all over me because suddenly I'm not sympathetic towards the thousands of people with schizophrenia or mental illness.
Then we're told ''but that's our justice system and thank god it works that way''. Well guess what, many Canadians disagree with it and don't think it's good enough.
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Well said. You were able to sum it up far more eloquently than I ever could.
It is entirely possible to empathize with DeGrood, and still feel he should never be free again. I couldn't imagine such insanity invading my head. But I also couldn't imagine eventually walking free one day either. In all honesty, if my body and mind somehow slaughtered 5 innocent people, I would take myself out the first chance I got. I would never be able to live with it.