My great grandfather gratuitously slammed a bayonette through the forehead of a young German soldier who was trying to surrender. That was one of the only stories of depraved savagery he ever told from his time in places like Ypres, Passchendaele and Vimy.
He came home and bottled up his PTSD and lived haunted by his own prior conduct until his last breath. He was a war hero though...so no need for anyone to even ask what risk of harm he posed to society walking around with no meds, no counselling etc.
This whole argument starts from a false premise that us who have not harmed anyone due to mental illness have some certain knowledge of how we never will.
The general population is not a homogenous group of non-risk. Vince Li post-release may well be one of the more safe people you would ever share a bus-ride with.
With all the time we are spending asking about his likely rate of recidivism, why are we not asking what is the percentage chance of getting on a bus with an undiagnosed schizophrenic who has not yet killed anyone?
Isn't that the risk you should be more worried about?
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