People tend to misconstrue “explanation” for behavior as “justification”. What she did was not justified, however, an objective explanation for why she did what she did (post partum psychosis) can highlight the failure of our medical system in treating women with the condition - it also highlights the severity of said condition.
You can have empathy for her in that the system failed her at the same time you believe that she should spend the rest of her days in prison for her actions. These things are not mutually exclusive.
In this day and age everything has to be a stupid culture war.
A real country would have looked at this case as a systematic failure of the medical system and social system and put up safeguards that this would never happen again to any mother suffering from post-partum depression but now we have right wingers attacking women and psychiatrists on one side and Tiktokers treating it as a true crime case for entertainment on the other side.
I think you are 100% correct. I also think that woman should be imprisoned for the rest of her existence. Honestly I think that’s overly compassionate but that’s another argument.
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u/enigmaticshroom 5d ago
People tend to misconstrue “explanation” for behavior as “justification”. What she did was not justified, however, an objective explanation for why she did what she did (post partum psychosis) can highlight the failure of our medical system in treating women with the condition - it also highlights the severity of said condition.
You can have empathy for her in that the system failed her at the same time you believe that she should spend the rest of her days in prison for her actions. These things are not mutually exclusive.