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<blockquote data-quote="Bradskii" data-source="post: 77656512" data-attributes="member: 412388"><p>And I live my life as if it exists as well. The mental gymnastics are just too hard to be doing continuously. But...it can impact on your life. I can argue against retributive punishment for example. If someone does me wrong then I can look for reasons why it happened and not automatically blame the person involved. It's kinda easier to forgive people some times.</p><p></p><p>There were a few people stabbed to death last week in a shopping mall close to where I live. He was shot to death by a policewoman who was close by when it happened. He stabbed mostly women and even a small baby who was lucky to survive. The baby's mother didn't. And people were saying that shooting him was too easy a punishment. He was evil incarnate to do something like that. But I found I was suggesting that people don't do these things normally, that there obviously was something mentally wrong with the guy. </p><p></p><p>And it turns out that he did have mental health problems. No real surprise. Did they cause him to do what he did? Undoubtedly. Was he responsible for having those problems? Obviously not. So to what degree was he culpable?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bradskii, post: 77656512, member: 412388"] And I live my life as if it exists as well. The mental gymnastics are just too hard to be doing continuously. But...it can impact on your life. I can argue against retributive punishment for example. If someone does me wrong then I can look for reasons why it happened and not automatically blame the person involved. It's kinda easier to forgive people some times. There were a few people stabbed to death last week in a shopping mall close to where I live. He was shot to death by a policewoman who was close by when it happened. He stabbed mostly women and even a small baby who was lucky to survive. The baby's mother didn't. And people were saying that shooting him was too easy a punishment. He was evil incarnate to do something like that. But I found I was suggesting that people don't do these things normally, that there obviously was something mentally wrong with the guy. And it turns out that he did have mental health problems. No real surprise. Did they cause him to do what he did? Undoubtedly. Was he responsible for having those problems? Obviously not. So to what degree was he culpable? [/QUOTE]
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