@alk1975 Said
Really? Then please quote where I said that killing people isn't abnormal. You seem to be equating the act with the sanity. I'm saying they are not the same. The act can be quite abnormal and the person's ability to distinguish reality, a person's emotional response to a trauma, etc, quite normal.
For example, if I walked in on someone raping my daughter. It would be a normal response for me to want to kill them. It meets your criteria about an altered mood state due to a stressor. It does not meet the criteria for diagnosis as a mental health issue. If in fact I chose to act on that urge to kill, then I would face a trial. They would determine whether I was guilty or not guilty. Am I "sane" if I'm found not guilty by reason of defending a loved one, but "insane" if I'm found guilty? My mental state at the time of the act was the same. There are any number of factors that might have affected the outcome of the judgement, but not my mental state at the time.
On the other hand, if I plead not guilty due to temporary insanity, then I have to prove that I was in fact "insane" at the moment of the crime. How then does one do that? If we follow your logic, then it is automatically assumed that because I was committing murder at the time, I must have been insane, therefore "not guilty".
This entire conversation I've basically been saying that murdering people is mentally abnormal, you have been playing the word game and arguing that it is or is not "legal temporary insanity" or mental health "temporary insanity" and not related to mental health diagnosis....I gather apparently not a mental health issues from your posts.
You are obsessed with your concept of legal insanity and your professional health care professional knowledge.
My part of this conversation has NEVER been about someone going to court and pleading "temporary insanity", I really can't figure out why you are obsessing on that idea.
In any case, as I said, I differ to your legal and health care expertise....I stand corrected, murdering people is not mentally abnormal either from a long term or short term perspective... I got it.