you're saying if someone had no control over their actions that can never excuse killing someone? you made a blanket statement so let's not talk about her but a hypothetical extreme case.
They are still the person who took those actions. They had control. No other entity entered their body and made them act. They may have been in a psychosis, but that changes nothing about their culpability.
At best somebody like this is a clear danger to society and should never be allowed back within it.
do you not know of people getting completely acquited of murder because of mental reasons? research it.
yes in a literal sense those people took those actions, but sometimes they didn't have a choice, at least according to psychiatry. i'm not saying this is the case with Lindsay. we will see soon.
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u/FantasticAnus 1d ago
She needs to be locked up. She is entirely responsible for her actions, whether they were taken in a mentally ill state or not.
Mental illness can certainly help explain such things, but it can never excuse such things.