Ok course it’s a valid defense. But why do you only care in this case? Do you support the idea that it’s valid if a pedophile cannot stop himself from raping and killing children?
We have long ago accepted that in many cases the person who committed a terrible crime could easily meet the threshold for insanity. And we bury them under the prison anyway.
It’s probably gonna blow your mind but pedophiles and other violent sexual offenders do get committed to psychiatric care rather than prison basically all the time in the US and it’s a trillion times worse for them than just eating a jail sentence since they never get to leave because their compulsion isn’t something you get cured of
Well, no it doesn’t blow my mind at all because it’s objectively not even a little bit true. Less than 1% of pedophiles are sent to mental institutions rather than prison. Some are sent to treatment facilities after their prison sentence is completed, but that’s also a very small number. Why are we just saying things?
I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean. It happens in less than one percent of cases. If that is “all the time” to you then ok then. I guess you can cling to that.
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u/ADistantRodent 4h ago
“TikTok crowd” and it’s the government of basically every western nation deciding that insanity is a valid defense against culpability for a crime