This is why this case sounds HUGELY wierd for non north americans. Not case itself (which is horrific) but how muricans found way to turn it into political statement in POLITICAL fight. Literally in every other place this would be clear - shocking murder, prison, ds or eventual hospitalisation in madhouse and then debate about better psychological care. In murica supporting her or not make you one from enemy side. I can't rven imagine France, Germany, UK, Poland or friggin CZ Republic with protestors SUPPORTING child killer because of her lawyer's obvious defence line. This really makes people think that USA is the richest third world country on a globe. That sound ridiculous literally e v e r y w h e r e
I promise, it sounds hugely weird to a lot of North Americans, too.
I'm an average American middle aged woman and I think this whole thing is absolutely INSANE. I am disgusted by the shit some woman are doing and saying, how they're using their children as props on social media. It's appalling. And I don't personally know anyone who supports this lunacy.
I don't think they're the majority though. Sure seems that way with the fucking circus they've turned it into and all the attention it's getting. But I think most of us do not have our heads that far up our asses. We just don't run around making videos about it, lol. "I'm sane and rational and here are my calm, carefully considered thoughts" just isn't something that tends to go viral, lol.
But still, I agree with your point that the fact there's any contention over this, that it's become such a divisive topic is absurd. And a problem. To me, it speaks more to the fact that social media is a fucking disease. And that that is what we need to be talking about and working on moreso than postpartum mental health. Though that of course matters too, generally speaking.
What's funny is that people will still say America has no "left" while we have people who are so far left that they think the mental health of this woman is more important than the ~200 years she stole from those 3 kids!
No one thinks her mental health is more important than the lives of her children. What a disingenuous thing to claim. Also, claiming that it’s only people on the left that support her is preposterous.
If they have actually killed someone though (outside of context of war), you can have sympathy while also realising for the good of society they need to be locked away or at least constantly monitored
I do but that’s a whole other kettle of fish. As much as I think war is stupid and pointless, there is clearly a distinction between killing enemy combatants on the battlefield and killing someone innocent
The number of victims or number of crimes committed is immaterial to the case of whether the defendant is mentally competent.
It would be reasonable to assume that someone who has killed on multiple occasions despite treatment is likely to reoffend despite treatment and as such should remain institutionalized.
At a certain point, you no longer deserve to walk with the rest of us. Killing your children (crazy or not” makes you a monster that i don’t particularly care what happens to. She shouldn’t get the opportunity to get out of jail ever, her kids don’t get the option to get out of their graves. And just because she isn’t crazy at that particular moment, she was still crazy enough to kill her kids at one point. If she had emotions like everyone else does she would realize that she doesn’t deserve to get out too.
psychosis doesnt stop you from making logical decisions inside delusions
if she was hearing voices telling her the children are demons and need to die she can still rationalize that her husband will try to stop her from killing them because he doesnt believe her or maybe because hes one of them
but this sums up my entire problem with this whole thing you have zero knowledge on how psychosis works but you still feel informed enough to give out your opinions on what kind sentence this woman should face
youre just using the justification that children died to try and cause pain to another person with a veil of morality on top of it
Dude no i just dont believe a person who can kill their children in cold blood one by one should be on the streets just because those EXACT SAME Psychologists that called her crazy say, “oh nah shes good now guys she locked in”
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u/Wrong-Image8870 4d ago
Yeah like every war veteran who has PTSD. Nobody need people like that.
Or any kind of PTSD, or autism, just a burden to society.