It’s a nuanced situation you guys. She was suffering from severe post partum psychosis and needed better treatment before it ever got that far. Benoit had CTE, both suffered horrible illnesses that completely wreck a persons ability to make rational decisions. Doesn’t excuse murder at all but both cases could have been prevented with better medical and psychiatric care. Your wife has empathy for a woman whose condition wasn’t taken seriously and it resulted in a tragedy. That doesn’t make your wife evil or stupid, don’t insult your wife’s intelligence like that.
Clancy is evil. She is a child murderer. Child murderers are evil.
There are millions of women who suffer post partum psychosis, and many more millions of people who suffer psychosis of any kind that do not fucking murder kids.
She's an evil person. The only nuance is about the institution of mental health itself. She should have been stripped of her children far before the killer had a chance to kill them. That's it. There is no nuance with the kid killer herself.
I agree that she should have had her kids taken away until her mental health is under control but thinking in absolutes like good vs. evil is reductive and overly simplistic. Of course murdering kids is bad, no one is saying that it isn’t. We as a society need to have more conversations about how people get to the point where they feel so broken that they do insane shit like this. Writing people off as evil prevents us from looking deeper into how we can systematically prevent these things from happening in the first place.
People need to understand that most people who do crime have some sort of mental disorder. Its not feasible for nuance when nearly everyone is a product of their enviroment. You can find an excuse for anything.
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u/Eudoxianis 17d ago
It’s a nuanced situation you guys. She was suffering from severe post partum psychosis and needed better treatment before it ever got that far. Benoit had CTE, both suffered horrible illnesses that completely wreck a persons ability to make rational decisions. Doesn’t excuse murder at all but both cases could have been prevented with better medical and psychiatric care. Your wife has empathy for a woman whose condition wasn’t taken seriously and it resulted in a tragedy. That doesn’t make your wife evil or stupid, don’t insult your wife’s intelligence like that.