Yeah for sure she is clearly pretty fucking heartless. The law only cares about your ability to perceive it though, it doesn’t care if you agree with it.

No actually, an insanity defense does not concern itself with your internal morality - it seeks to establish whether or not you were aware of external things such as social acceptability or legality. Think about it - if everything boiled down to how we feel about things, there would hardly be any need for laws or…

Yeah that is what people are parsing on here. But under the law there is no distinction - the ability to discern what is considered right and wrong is all that matters. Lawyers can’t argue “Yeah she knew it was wrong, she just didn’t FEEL it was wrong” for a reason.

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Ha or ever. I think part of why I am unsympathetic is I can remember a lot of people this fucked up from high school. Adolescence is fucking crazy.

You seemed, to me, to make a statement to the effect that because she is at all mentally ill she should not be found legally responsible for the consequences of her actions. I may or may not have misread your post, but my response was polite - I said her texts indicate she can tell right from wrong, which is what…

Yeah I posted elsewhere that her lawyers would do better to pursue that strategy than the insanity defense.

Jesus christ. I just don’t go in for this kind of shit on here, sorry. Argue with someone else.

Yeah they must have a damage control strategy at best. It’d be easier to argue that regardless of her actions, she bears no responsiblity for his actions than it would be to argue that she didn’t understand what she was doing.

You seriously must be trolling. Armchair psychologist? Look in the mirror, friend, we are the same.

Yeah see I don’t think a lawyer is gonna get far arguing that she can’t “feel” morals like the rest of us. That law is written specifically to avoid that argument - KNOWLEDGE of right and wrong, even in the absence of an internal moral compass, is what counts. This lawyer is going to have to argue that she is somehow…

I agree the post comes off as classist but that text was obviously sent to him on purpose to test the waters. If this actually happened that is.

Well, I would totally love the recording and love that my bf made the recording, and also let all my friends listen... but I wouldn’t write a blog post about it, let alone a blog post that is obviously intended for this woman to read...

Yeah that was really too much to take.

No not really. See David Ruddock’s response for a lengthier explanation but under the law you simply have to understand that society views a thing as wrong, you don’t have to feel that it is wrong yourself. This girl fits that description. Psychopaths and sociopaths go to prison all the time.

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She demonstrated knowledge that what she was doing was wrong, would cause his family to hate her and for the police to come after her. Even in the presence of serious psychological issues which I would argue are not evident here, this ability to discern right from wrong prevents her from using the insanity defense.

Power over someone vulnerable.

She knew what she was doing.

If that boy were my son this girl would be lucky to be sent to prison. None of us are perfectly stable and this girl knew what she was doing in spite of her own issues. There are much worse texts to dig up than what is posted above.