• @afraid_of_zombies
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      511 months ago

      Does it matter? I thought the standard is “knowing right from wrong” in terms of mental illness defense.

      • @[email protected]
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        1211 months ago

        It can. We has a local here who had some kind of compulsion to throw rocks (big ones) off of overpasses at cars.

        He knew it was wrong, and the guilt evidently fucked with him a lot, but he also couldn’t stop himself. Eventually he had to turn himself in and hope the state didn’t execute him or something.

      • @agent_flounder
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        411 months ago

        I think?

        But I was simply providing one possible answer for the person above wondering, “what makes people do this?”

      • @ABCDE
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        111 months ago

        Of course it does.

    • squiblet
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      111 months ago

      I suppose it could be some compulsive thing, but I doubt that everyone stealing like that has a bonafide mental disorder.