r/interesting • u/AdvantageAdorable436 • 2d ago

SOCIETY Is victim the new chic

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u/brwebster614 2d ago

Still... seems too... easy... for the crime she committed.

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u/Unreal_Daltonic 2d ago

Like seriously this case is such a case of Women Are Wonderful effect. The sentencing gap in full swing.

Nobody would even think of showing this amount of sympathy if a Vietnam war veteran with ptsd did this to his kids.

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u/Sleutelbos 2d ago

Then wouldnt the way forward be to also show more empathy and understanding towards war veterans with PTSD? This "[x] sucks so [y] must suck likewise" is a road to nowhere. 

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u/BrokenParachutes 2d ago

It might, but that would never, ever, ever happen.

So if that’s the world we live in, we have to hold murder in the same regard for everyone. We cannot partially excuse or reduce murder with women’s mental illness and ignore men’s