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RE: Mentally ill people commiting crimes: opinions.
Same treatment as everyone else. If they plead that they had a mental illness and that's why they commited a crime, well, they knew they had the illness, and had plenty of chances to get help.
Mentally ill people should either get help, or expect to be treated exactly the same as anyone else if they commit a crime. It's simply wrong, since people can kill someone, or whatever, then ooo, suddenly they've got a mental illness. (Sarcasm my dears, that's not true in a lot of cases.)
If someone is mentally ill, and unaware of it, I think they should be treated differently. It's just that if the person is aware of it and could have got help so they wouldn't commit a crime, they should be treated the same.
Bah, I know what mentally ill people are like, and I know they have as much chance as anyone to get help.
This post was edited on 08-16-2006 at 02:31 PM by Tasha.
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