Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
His life is now scarred.
You'd be hard-pressed to hold anyone else responsible for that, surely.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Wilson would have been sentenced to PD if he were convicted now
Wonder if a law change could make it restrospective for the rare ones like him. Are there others?
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
The man is a mental patient in my eyes
That's unfortunate. Psychopathy seems quite different in both rehabilitation and likelihood of reoffending, as others have noted. We're not all creatures needing just a little love and understanding to be capable of living with others. A tiny few are more irrevocably broken than that.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
As I said above, the difference is that no one needs to kill another person. That seems more than insignificant.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Isn't it easier to just not deal with the likes of him
Not an answer for people who care about the safety of those around them.
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
it's the same diff
no, it's not
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Like most situations, there are more than two answers. Lock him up forever, to avoid someone else having to bear the burden of ending his life. That could have happened if he offended after the law changed.
But he poses a very real threat to any people he is exposed to, so you can understand them getting fearful. Cowardly fools like Lhaws thrive if the system is not credibly reassuring that it will again take the burden from the rest of us. Retribution is bad for us, not just creeps like Gummy.
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Psychopaths are beyond therapy.
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Field Theory: In closing, in reply to Russell Brown,
and tweeted it for good measure :)
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Field Theory: In closing, in reply to Russell Brown,
My generation had 'Stars on 45'
enough counter-proof, I'd say