What to do with the colorado theater shooter

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People frequently dont manifest psychosis until they are about his (and your) age- their early twenties.


Even if he had been psychotic for a long time -im not sure how that would stop him from buying guns-as long as his psychosis didnt cause him to have a police record.

Psychosis does not typically involve carefully planning a mass shooting in a movie theater and collecting all the necessarily supplies to do so. Psychosis would be more like you are afraid someones out to get you or something and see yourself as defending against them. I mean psychosis would be comparable to a bad psychedelic trip in my opinion and I think it would be pretty hard to plan out something like that in such a state of mind.

Also psychosis is a break from reality, its wouldn't really be possible not to show signs of it...also usually a state of psychosis does not last for an extended period of time its something one with a psychotic disorder will experience at times but not 24/7.

Who's saying anything about knowledge, or even compassion? The issue people are having is that the OP is explicitly endorsing the idea of punitive rape, and to a lot of people including myself, that's not OK, and a bit creepy considering how often he brings it up.

I think I might have to agree here.

Without going into the thorny depths of defining "what is insanity", but I thinks thats ass-backward.

I agree that he might not be considered legally insane. Legal insanity usually means that you are basically sane person who temporarily flipped out due to something external-like finding your spouse in bed with a lover.


But a person who would plot for years to murder strangers in a movie theatre -well how is that NOT insane? Youd certainly be more insane than a cukholded spouse who temporarily flips out who is considered legally insane. But Im speaking of clinical, not legal, insanity.

The Unabomber was just like this aurora killer- but far more so! The unabomber devoted decades to his plan that involved making and sending homemade handcrafted bombs.

And indeed his lawyer tried to get cop an insanity plea for him.

But even if the unabomber may not have been legally insane (there was nothing temporary about his condition) surely you dont consider Ted Kozinski to be sane-in the common sense usage of the term-do you!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Twisting peoples' figure of speechs, light jokes, or words for that matter is such darn fun isn't it. OP asked in their first post if you think the loser should get jail or execution. It's not very hard to understand if you.. you know,.. actualy tried.

"a lot of people" Where did those "lots of people" post their support? You're proof? This is only 6 pages. Oh wait, it's just that tactic. I'm familior with that to. oops.

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Tried; succeeded. That's what he said.

You know what continues to be amusing? We both said inmates. Not guards. whoopsie. I guess you guys think inmates are the guys in charge of the cell blocks. Corrective rape, right? If not, I fail to see where you are going with this.

Unless symptoms of a mental illness contributed or external factors pushed him to some internal breaking point, then It wouldn't be legal insanity or clinical insanity. Though in all reality insanity is not even a clinical term....the closest thing to insanity clincially would be mental disorders and/or mental illnesses and if anything the idea that mentally ill people are typically ticking time bombs waiting to explode needs to go away because I hate the stigma. Now sure with mental illnesses it can be a struggle to keep control of the symptoms and it is possible to lose control but its not a planned thing like this mass shooting was.

Also were the nazis insane? as far as I know that is not how they are referred to in most history books so my conclusion is sane people can do terrible things........not to mention statistics show its more likely those with mental illnesses are more likely to be the victim of violent crimes than the perpetrators. Not to mention I have a feeling I was probably more 'insane' than the bullies who bullied me as a child..hence I had depression, anxiety and AS, just more evidence that 'sane' people can do terrible things for terrible reasons such as domination, power or because they can even. I think someone has to be pretty sane and clear of mind to come up with such an effective mass shooting plan...and all that he did to his apartment to make it a distraction or whatever.

Another incorrect use of the phrase "corrective rape".
Just saying.

actually you're quite wrong here. the legal definition of insanity has nothing to do with the duration of the insanity, other than, of course, the fact that the accused would at least have been considered to be insane at the time of the crime. no, insanity doesn't need to be permanent to utilise the defence, but neither does it have to be temporary. your example (angry man whose wife is in bed with someone else) would not stand up in court as an insanity plea, or even likely diminished responsibility. the perpetrator here was simply angry. anger is not a form of insanity.

it rests on whether the accused has any real understanding of having committed the act, and subsequently of the act having been wrong, i.e. mental capacity. in the western world it generally dates back to the acquittal of daniel mcnaughton following on his assassination attempt on robert peel.

see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27Naghten_Rules

See, OP? Why even try? *looks at sig.* Oh never mind. My patience is at and end.

corrective [kəˈrɛktɪv]
adj
tending or intended to correct
n
something that tends or is intended to correct
correctively adv.

Here's a link. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/corrective

What is prison for? Anyone? Criminal correction! *applause* Who controls correction? YEAH EXACTLY! Do the inmates? Of course not. *tee hee* Do some things happen with the cops not present? hmmm..... let me think.... YEAH.

I don't care who does it. If it happens, and it's anticipated, it's punitive rape.
That's all I mean. Ready to rant some more?

Corrective rape is the rape of lesbians in order to (supposedly) turn them straight.
It isn't rape by guards, or rape by prisoners, or rape by anyone to punish crimes.

You must have very little patience. I don't recall us ever having a conversation before.



That is indeed the definition of "corrective". However, "corrective rape" is what we call a PHRASE. That's two or more words used together. Sometimes a phrase has a somewhat different meaning than the individual words that comprise it.

advocating rape violates the rules of WrongPlanet, regardless of who you are talking about: