temporary insanity?

temporary insanity?

of course you were insane when you murdered.
sane folks don't murder.

of course you were insane when you robbed the bank.
sane folks don't rob banks.

etc...

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is insanity a defense to crime?

actually, it could be defense between be prison for life or death row. you get way with murder.

1) Depends on who you ask.
2) Answers/decisions given or made will depend on 'their' mission or objective.
3) Maybe the real question should be intelligent or stupid?
SANE and INSANE people DO rob banks and murder people, depending of the circumstances. So if one is out of work, can't find a job, bills to pay, wife and kids to feed and take care of --- is he insane (temporary or not) if he robs a bank or kills to feed his/her family.

After all, you and I may of been in similar situations --- out of work, bills to pay - but we didn't rob a bank, steal anything from anywhere, or hurt/kill anyone, did we?

The one thing most will agree on is: SMART thinking people don't do those things. He/she may of been SANE, but they were stupid.

Don't think there's any laws yet against stupidity, though.

I've been temporarily insane for a little while....not so very long actually...just a couple decades...or so...

1) Depends on who you ask.
2) Depends on the objective/mission of who you ask.
3) Both insane and sane people rob banks, kill people and other crimes as well. But "smart-thinking" people do not rob banks.
Maybe a person claims they were out of work, in debt, spouse and kids were hungry and sick - so they robbed a bank, and or killed/hurt others out of desperation.
A common response may be: others have been there, been there myself - but "I"/they didn't rob a bank or kill/hurt someone.

4) However, sad to say, there is currently no law on the books against stupidity.

stupid and mental illness is two different things.

people in insane, will be intelligent one moment,and you have a nice conversation with them. at minute later, they killed you.

temporary insanity could be mental illness by their action. a person claim they heard voices in the head. the voices said to : kill. a normal person will not have voice(s) tell to commit a violent act.

a normal person would stop themselves before he or she would kill.

a person, who overact without thing, not think, and kills. could you use temporary insanity as a defense strategy.

what you call temporary insanity, if not a form of mental illness?

....then that begs the question of: what is 'normal'?
Or even is there is a 'normal' anymore, with so much diversity and acceptance of any and all things.
Our differences makes us normal. Being different is normal, nowadays.

Whereas, back in the day, normal was the status quo (the majority)
and if one was 'different' or acted/behaved different - then you were not normal. Now: abnormal or different is the status quo/normal/majority.

you're right, what is " normal "in society, what is " acceptable normal " in society. what does our society tolerance, what doesn't our society not accept to be normal? where the gray line fall in? who should judge " normal " in the society, ourselves or society?

desperation is met in different ways.

futurama is funny.

if it is ok to steal because it is normal, does it still suck to be stolen from?

in some ways, stealing is a human desire or need. it would under the normal realm of society's acceptable. steal is wrong, not always do with insanity or mental illness.

lets go off topic.

if stealing was normal way to make a living, would it still suck to be stolen from?

no, it wouldnot be good to stole from. what would be normal reaction if you caught the person?

you might or might not kill the person. if you kill him, you always use temporary insanity, as a pledge.

Right, based on the quoted part below - then you would (and do) have intelligent, sane, manipulative users of systems. These so-called sane persons {who have learned how to appear as normal in their daily behavior and activities) then decide to use this temporary insanity plea 'thing' to their advantage plea) as they go about covertly stealing, killing, and generally setting other people up to further their own gains. In a premeditated fashion even, but covertly.

It all gets down to whether the crime was premeditated or not.

Then there is the problem of 'proving' premeditation, when the sane manipulators and abusers are so good at covering their tracks, and/or buying people off, or greasing palms, or even 'just' blackmail or intimidation.

yes. like serial killers. use temporary insanity, like they have black outs. have no idea what happen to them after they have blackout. even split-personality, be use as a defense.