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Voted : No, mentally ill people should get the same punishments as anyone who commits a crime.
Try telling the families of murder victims killed by an insane person that the killer doesn't deserve to be punished.
Voted : No, mentally ill people should get the same punishments as anyone who commits a crime.
Mental illness, to me, is a slippery slope at best. At times, I consider myself mentally ill, because of my inabilities to function socially. But, were I to run out and commit mass murder, I would neither expect, or ask for, any special considerations at trial. I broke the law, and, soemwhere in my ehad, I knew what the law was. IMO, of course. Insanity does color the judgment.
Voted : Yes, mentally ill people who commit heinous crimes should be treated, not punished.
Yes. Some people just can't help themselves, so society needs to help them.
Voted : Yes, mentally ill people who commit heinous crimes should be treated, not punished.
Sometimes. Not like someone with scizophrenia or something, but someone who really has no concept of right and wrong. I'm sure it's hard for "normal minded" people like us(?) to understand, but with how complex the brain is I am sure that there do exist people who just don't understand what is right and wrong. They deserve to be locked up because they are a hazard, just prison is not a good place for them.
Voted : Yes, mentally ill people who commit heinous crimes should be treated, not punished.
They should be treated.
I'm the first one telling you that if anyone in my family was raped, killed or both by an insane person i'd track him down and give the most horrible death i could think of.
This would be a very extraordinary circumstance and obviously i would lack the necessary emotional distance to make use of the 3 fundamental values on which i think a good system of laws should be based: reason, logic and humanism.
Historically I cant think of judicial system that could be called advanced based on old gruesome adages such "an eye for an eye (and no matter what)". In fact such systems usually reflect societies with high criminal rates, poverty and social backwardness.
Voted : Yes, mentally ill people who commit heinous crimes should be treated, not punished.
however, the person better seriously fing mentally ill
Voted : Other
Being mentally ill may be the reason for committing a heinous crime, but it should not be considered an excuse...I believe there are different levels of mental illness and many who need treatment only recieve it after doing something that possibly could have been prevented...just as in most alcoholics, judgements can be seriously impaired...
Voted : No, mentally ill people should get the same punishments as anyone who commits a crime.
There are a large amount of mentally ill people who do not commit heinous crimes. The very desire to commit such a crime could be labeled a mental illness, thus excusing ALL crimes. What of the mentally ill person who is so angry, they could hurt someone, but they control the urge and do not do the crime. Does this render their metal illness cured? No, it doesn't. Id you do the crime, it's because you want to--mentally hgealthy or mentally ill. If a person is so mtally ill they have no cotrol, they wouldn't be able to walk or eat by themslves. Why chould crime be the only thing they cannot control?
Voted : Yes, mentally ill people who commit heinous crimes should be treated, not punished.
Only if they really have a good excuse for not knowing right from wrong, though.
I'm not sure excuse is the right word. If you use mental illness as a defense for a heinous crime you may not get sentenced to jail, but you will be incarcerated in a mental health facility where you cannot harm others or yourself.
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