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Originally posted by WileEPyote View Post
Infanticide?
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Originally posted by WileEPyote View Post
I don't know about that. Have you read the entire letter? I have also been through very similar cognitive behavioral therapy as Hans. I have been bipolar since about 8 years old. All through my teens and 20s, I was borderline sociopathic. I had very, very little empathy. The therapy opened my eyes, and taught me how to be empathetic. Now I might be a little too empathetic these days. lol. If you take them seriously, these therapies have a pretty good success rate.
Then me is a completely different human than now me.
Knowing what I know about these therapies, I lean fairly strongly on the side of him telling the truth about his regrets.
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Where's the fun in that? Don't you know it's always the wife's fault? /s
and have you killed someone? him being a child is fixable, I had a terrible attitude at one point too. but him having killed someone in cold blood, lying about it, refusing to take responsibility for it, and fighting the charges until the end is not fixableLast edited by AlanTuring69; 22 May 2024, 06:49 PM.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View Post
While that is true, you have to look at the root cause. Did he do it because he really was evil or because he had mental health issues?
Virtually nobody thinks they are evil. You can ask the worst rapist/murderer/drug dealer in prison, and they'll explain to you why everything they did was perfectly justified, and they'll believe it. People like Hitler thought everything they did was for the good of [insert justification here]. Is that a mental health issue that just hasn't been resolved yet? Where does that differ from just having different opinions about what is important to them vs you?
What if they say they're sorry? What if you aren't sure if they're being genuine about that apology, or just saying it to get better chances of parole in a few years time? How can you tell the difference, especially from a distance when all you see is a few statements, and can't interact and talk with the guy face to face?
I'm very sympathetic to the viewpoint that prison is meant to rehabilitate, not just punish, and people have to be allowed to move on eventually. However, it's also reasonable to take their past actions into account and view them skeptically. You can't just blindly accept everything they say.Last edited by smitty3268; 22 May 2024, 06:59 PM.
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Originally posted by blackiwid View Post
So you only want to focus on the gender if it helps women and shames men, but not if it shames women. But if you want to go with the gender of the victims to be technical, let's not call it suicide but manicide? Because Statistics...
And I sense that perhaps you are missing the satire here?
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Originally posted by AlanTuring69 View Post
actually, I did, and I felt disgusting after having read it and ashamed to have read that pile of shit
and have you killed someone? him being a child is fixable, I had a terrible attitude at one point too. but him having killed someone in cold blood, lying about it, refusing to take responsibility for it, and fighting the charges until the end is not fixable
And of course you try to fight the charges. It's an act of self preservation. I don't imagine there are a lot of people accused and charged with murder that don't try to get into less trouble. Even if they are remorseful, they still try to get a lesser punishment. It's simple human nature to seek less punishment. I'm not immune to it, you aren't immune to it, nobody is immune to it.
And besides that, him doing those things 15 years ago doesn't say anything about who he is today.
People all have the ability to change if they want to.
As for killing someone, if someone takes my kids away from me, that is a distinct possibility. Fucking with someone's family can be a very quick way to send them over the edge. Not saying that means the murder is justified. Just saying it's not an unthought-of or surprising outcome. Most people I know would go to extremes for their children.
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Originally posted by WileEPyote View Post
Except that he is taking responsibility for it now.
And of course you try to fight the charges. It's an act of self preservation. I don't imagine there are a lot of people accused and charged with murder that don't try to get into less trouble. Even if they are remorseful, they still try to get a lesser punishment. It's simple human nature to seek less punishment. I'm not immune to it, you aren't immune to it, nobody is immune to it.
And besides that, him doing those things 15 years ago doesn't say anything about who he is today.
People all have the ability to change if they want to.
As for killing someone, if someone takes my kids away from me, that is a distinct possibility. Fucking with someone's family can be a very quick way to send them over the edge. Not saying that means the murder is justified. Just saying it's not an unthought-of or surprising outcome. Most people I know would go to extremes for their children.
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Originally posted by AlanTuring69 View Post
and he killed his childrens mother despite being an absentee father and supposedly caring about them. they will never get their mother back.
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Originally posted by AlanTuring69 View Post
and he killed his childrens mother despite being an absentee father and supposedly caring about them. they will never get their mother back.
He can't change what he did, but he can learn from it and improve himself. People can change for the better, believe it or not.
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