• @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.