@BethanyCherisse If you were not in control of your actions, you are basically like a dangerous wild animal that needs to be locked away.
If you were in control of your actions, you are a dangerous psychopath that needs to be locked away.
Either way, you need to be locked away.
@growing_daniel It's not literally just a voice.
It's a psychiatric phenomenon that is characterised by voice but there is a lot more going on underneath than just the voice.
@CassandraRules Yes. Even if she did have a genuine psychotic episode and was not in control of her actions, that means she should be locked in a mental hospital. Not given 1 million dollars.
@America_1776USA@frieda_lessar@geraldposner She took great care to avoid that. Second child was killed in a different room so they would not have to see dead sibling. Third child too young to understand what was going on.
@mdjcole The US also printed too much money, but the US has the ability to export excess money, since the USD is used as a reserve currency by half of the world.
The UK doesn't have this privilege.
@Amgomg99@WB_Baskerville In my opinion, this is just as bad intimidating a judge.
Something that I expect to happen in failed states and banana republics but not the US.
@genzdivorceddad@memeticsisyphus 36% of women who suffer postpartum psychosis have single episode in their life with no recurrence at all.
Given this statistic, I think this still falls under reasonable doubt, IF you accept she had postpartum psychosis in the first place.
@memeticsisyphus@aestheticist_ Ok, but murder doesn't rationally "solve the problem" in this case. You are just creating an even bigger burden. So it's reasonable to assume she was not of sound mind.
@memeticsisyphus Actually, 36% of women with postpartum psychosis have a single episode with no recurrence at all.
Whether Clancy actually had postpartum psychosis is a different question. The condition is already rare, and getting it 8 months after giving birth is even rarer.
@Timcast Not every act of murder is insane.
Gang-on-gang murders are, for the most part, based on a perfectly rational calculation.
Any reasonable person would also commit them if they were trapped in that gang environment.