CoderKat , 11 months ago

By nature of successfully being considered legally insane (which is not easy to do), he doesn’t have malicious intent, though. Not in the eyes of the law. By being not in the right mind, it’s as if it wasn’t actually him that committed the crime.

We should be making decisions based on facts, not emotions. It’s easy for a horrible crime to make us feel “what the fuck, he should rot in prison”. But ask yourself why the insanity defense even exists if not to allow seriously ill people to be helped.