- Sep 22, 2013
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I want to present a debate about the death penalty but through the lens of criminal insanity, since that seems to put the real monkey-wrench into the wheel.
Here's a mock dialogue between Shiva (Hindu god of destruction) and Pennywise (fictional demonic clown from the Stephen King novel It) to get things cooking (since these two 'folk-mythos' avatars symbolize 'extreme measures').
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SHIVA: It's most difficult to administer the death penalty when the defendant is considered criminally insane.
PENNYWISE: When the victimizer seems to have no control over their own decisions, they're vulnerable.
SHIVA: There are cases when sleepwalkers commit crimes without any conscious 'self-control.'
PENNYWISE: Yes, such individuals are considered to possess no self-evaluation capability.
SHIVA: What if a victim avenges themselves by killing their victimizer (e.g., vigilante-bent execution of rapist)?
PENNYWISE: Vigilantes, lynch-mobs, 'maniac-cops,' and jihadists fall under 'mob-psychology.'
SHIVA: Yes, all of Nazi Germany was criminally insane and hence indicative of mob-psychology.
PENNYWISE: Can you construe Nazi Germany as a 'criminally-insane state' requiring rehabilitation?
SHIVA: You'd need a really devoted criminal psychologist to address such an issue...
PENNYWISE: There would be no room for error!
SHIVA: Germany was in a state of financial disarray and social angst leading up to the days of Hitler.
PENNYWISE: It was not unlike the 'social strains' seen in conditions leading up to the 1992 LA Race Riots.
SHIVA: Why is criminal insanity so pitiable?
PENNYWISE: When you have no control over your mental faculties, people think you're very weak.
SHIVA: Brains vs. brawn, eh?
PENNYWISE: That's right, and it's an important 'dichotomy' in this modern age of 'tech-imagination'.
SHIVA: If Earth was visited by an alien species, the species might say, "Humanity is vexed by psychiatry!"
PENNYWISE: How much federal funds go into capital punishment and psychiatry resources? Trump!!
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Here's a mock dialogue between Shiva (Hindu god of destruction) and Pennywise (fictional demonic clown from the Stephen King novel It) to get things cooking (since these two 'folk-mythos' avatars symbolize 'extreme measures').
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SHIVA: It's most difficult to administer the death penalty when the defendant is considered criminally insane.
PENNYWISE: When the victimizer seems to have no control over their own decisions, they're vulnerable.
SHIVA: There are cases when sleepwalkers commit crimes without any conscious 'self-control.'
PENNYWISE: Yes, such individuals are considered to possess no self-evaluation capability.
SHIVA: What if a victim avenges themselves by killing their victimizer (e.g., vigilante-bent execution of rapist)?
PENNYWISE: Vigilantes, lynch-mobs, 'maniac-cops,' and jihadists fall under 'mob-psychology.'
SHIVA: Yes, all of Nazi Germany was criminally insane and hence indicative of mob-psychology.
PENNYWISE: Can you construe Nazi Germany as a 'criminally-insane state' requiring rehabilitation?
SHIVA: You'd need a really devoted criminal psychologist to address such an issue...
PENNYWISE: There would be no room for error!
SHIVA: Germany was in a state of financial disarray and social angst leading up to the days of Hitler.
PENNYWISE: It was not unlike the 'social strains' seen in conditions leading up to the 1992 LA Race Riots.
SHIVA: Why is criminal insanity so pitiable?
PENNYWISE: When you have no control over your mental faculties, people think you're very weak.
SHIVA: Brains vs. brawn, eh?
PENNYWISE: That's right, and it's an important 'dichotomy' in this modern age of 'tech-imagination'.
SHIVA: If Earth was visited by an alien species, the species might say, "Humanity is vexed by psychiatry!"
PENNYWISE: How much federal funds go into capital punishment and psychiatry resources? Trump!!
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