Posted by trouble on March 10, 2002, at 18:09:18
In reply to Re: Andrea knew what she was doing, posted by beardedlady on March 10, 2002, at 16:00:24
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> I wonder if anyone who is killing someone thinks, "This is wrong," while doing the act. But before the act? After the act?
>Wow, that's a good question Bearded Lady. I read crimonology and have never seen that question posed before, not even in fiction, for that matter, and now it's important to me.
I guess the law just looks at the moral mindset that precedes the crime, we can't even imagine what thoughts accompany the act itself, it must just be like a total regression to some pre-cognitive, reptilian or nightmarish state of being. Incomprehensible.I wish I believed that premeditation and deliberation could prove knowledge of wrongdoing, but can't find the logic in that. She could have planned it a year or 5 minutes in advance w/ the same moral mindset. But the longer the premeditation, the harder it is for reasonable people to believe there wasn't a single moment of lucidity in there to tell her how insane she'd got. It's hard to picture someone so crazy so long passing for sane amidst a normal, sane environment.
Based on the current data I agree w/ the majority opinion, her adult intimates have a lot to answer for. But I can just hear them "who would have thought she was capable of such a thing?" I don't know, why didn't they ask?trouble
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