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Originally posted by dhamsaic
How can you say that he was trying to kill?
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Um, because he said so?
"I'm here to help you realize/ understand that you will live no matter what! It is up to you people to open your hearts and minds. There is no such thing as death. The people I've dismissed from this reality are not at all dead."
According to what he says, he belives that death is an illusion...and he's on a mission to demonstrate it for us. Latest word is that the reason his bombings were laid out in circles is that he was trying to draw a smiley face on the map...darn; ya can't make stuff like this up.
Of course, to try to follow this "logic", it would appear that he didn't believe that killing doesn't actually result in death. Arguing about his "intentions" looks like it's going to be a pretty tricky business.
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Originally posted by Xugumad
Age brings dogma, and unchanging opinions. If you've believed that XYZ is wrong for 15 years, you aren't going to change your opinion now, even if you are 'proven' wrong.
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I can think of several opinions I held for a lot longer than 15 years and then changed. Dogma is *far* from the exclusive province of the old...younger folk can be every bit as dogmatic. That's why there''s the joke: "Hire a teenager, while he still knows everything".
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Besides, if you invoke age as the arbiter of issues, Maggie's opinion will count more than yours, anyway. Let's hear it..
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Thanks too much.
OK: I think the kid is a nutball, and I think he's quite likely to be found legally insane at or before trial. As abused as the insanity defense is these days, I think we may very well have a bonafide case of it here. I can't see how serves any good purpose to execute him if that's the case.
I'm guessing even the prosecution experts will end up calling him legally insane...if not, we may have to let the defense and prosecution do "battle of the expert witesses" and let a judge or jury make the call.