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Originally Posted by rubecube
Some of the posts in this thread really demonstrate how far we still have to go in terms of believing that mental illness can be and is a thing that is beyond control of the individual afflicted with it.
This isn't a comment on whether he should or shouldn't be released, but saying the honourable thing to do would be to kill yourself in a situation like this is pretty gross.
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It's pretty sad.
Dinosaur-like thinking. Not everyone operates like you do, and has the same control of their faculties as you have.
It's not like these convicts are playing some elaborately planned trick on people with mental illness cover story in order to get away with a heinous crime.
And yet it's as if that's what some people are insinuating.
In the Boomer generation where mental illness had more stigma attached to it and was expected to be brushed under the rug or could be chalked up to nonsense, I suppose it makes sense that some people still can't grasp the idea that someone might not be criminally responsible because of their condition.
If roles were reversed and in a fugue state you didn't comprehend you did something terrible you don't recall, would you like people to tell you to off yourself, or would you plead for some understanding?