Current Events > Do you have sympathy for mentally ill murderers?

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Like if they have schizophrenia, and the voices are telling them to kill someone, or feel like people are a danger to them. Do you feel sorry for them?

No

Empathy maybe but not sympathy.

only fictional ones but not real ones

FUCK NO.

Get them all the fuck out of here and place them all in prison for life away from functioning society.

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No you can definitely feel sympathetic (I.e feel bad for them) for someone mentally ill.

incorrect correction, etc

Empathy actually means being able to understand and share the feelings of another, so everyone going empathy not sympathy, including you, is saying the opposite of what they mean to.

Zonbei posted...

No you can definitely feel sympathetic (I.e feel bad for them) for someone mentally ill.

incorrect correction, etc

You can but it makes you look like a psycho if they murdered someone

Irony posted...

You can but it makes you look like a psycho if they murdered someone

Only if youve mixed up the words empathy and sympathy, which you obviously have.

I absolutely feel bad for (I.e have sympathy for) mentally ill murderers. They did a horrible thing because their brain is broken, and their life (and others) is over or ruined. That sucks. Being schizophrenic sucks. Murdering someone because your brain is telling you they are a demon from hell that wants to destroy you sucks. Doesnt excuse what they did but I can look at them and say that poor fucking bastard.

What I cant do is have empathy, because I cant understand and share their feelings of being so mentally ill that I murder someone.

As always on the internet: if youre going to correct someone, be right about it.

I've only met one person with schizophrenia but yeah it's awful. if they're not on the right meds they literally can't tell the difference between reality and what they see/hear and they're pretty much always miserable even if the meds are working because they never truly feel 'right'

so yeah, I'd feel sympathy, but it's still murder. they'd have to be institutionalized, not put in prison

Hw can you blame someone when they are not in control of their actions?

ai123 posted...

Hw can you blame someone when they are not in control of their actions?

Because they killed someone. Another person's life isn't just some "oopsie" where an apology ameliorates the fact that they've been killed.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Because they killed someone. Another person's life isn't just some "oopsie" where an apology ameliorates the fact that they've been killed.

I feel like you addressed the murder but not the not in control of their actions thing. And then pretended an apology was what was being asked for.

If someone was colonized by an aggressive fungus that takes control of the brain and makes you kill others, can they be blamed? If an animal gets rabies and goes wild, do you blame the animal?

I dont even agree that you cant blame those people at all because its not quite as all encompassing as those examples; I just think your answer completely sidestepped the question you were answering.