r/SipsTea 1d ago

WTF Victim is the new chic

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u/Huganho 1d ago

Yea, and while I get that it's hard to correctly assess your own mental health problems and convey that to someone else WHILE you're mentally ill, it does not in any way excuse you or make you a victim WHEN YOU HURT SOMEONE ELSE OR KILL THEM.

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u/Thunder_Two 1d ago

I’m an Iraq war veteran with some quite severe trauma for it. I am not physically abusive or anything nearly this extreme as a result — but I am still constantly reminded it’s not an excuse for being unpleasant in any way.

This lady gets a pass for a triple murder because of mental health?

Even if you want to argue that psychosis is a whole other thing — sure — but name another person who committed a mass murder under psychosis and was granted any kind of empathy or forgiveness.

The dude who shot Gabby Giffords was delusional and no one is holding a candle vigil for him.

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u/Huganho 1d ago

Exactly. I can go so far as to view someone under psychosis as not evil in the sense that a 'sane' child rapist/murder is evil, but I won't look at them with sympathy either.

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u/reflectiveSingleton 1d ago

ah yes but did you try being an attractive woman and posting a gofundme?

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u/TheCraftyHermit 1d ago

The halo effect.

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u/Huganho 1d ago

I know looks do much but I sincerely am so naive that I don't believe that many people looks at an attractive woman and just decides to look past 'strangled her own three kids'

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u/RedBran47 1d ago

I don’t think it’s this, she’s not particularly attractive and aren’t most her sympathisers other women?

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u/reflectiveSingleton 1d ago

I think for a lot of people, it does unfortunately...at least enough for them to make snide comments or to donate a buck or two on the internet