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[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"] What one soldier does....does not reflect on Americans so no damage control. The news report brought up the mental issue. And in the US at least we understand that sometimes people just aren't in the right frame of mind and we treat that differently. Your country may not do that. Which says more about your country actually.LJS9502_basic
So if an Afghan who lost his wife and kids in this 16-people massacre would go berserk, fly to the US and gun down 20 people in a school, hospital, etc., you'd continue to say it was just a mental breakdown and the guy should be forgiven?
ROFL
You and everyone else would be calling for his head and calling him a terrorist, and never for a second would "mental instability" cross your mind.
Go berzerk and shoot up a neighborhood. Yes. Plan and fly to another country....no. That's planning....and not snapping.This was planned. The soldier may be insane but it was planned. It wasn't something that happened in the heat of the moment. He woke up one day, decided to do this and and carried it out. Maybe he was even thinking about it for some days, I'm speculatng of course but it's not absurd.
You're confusing crimes committed for emotional reasons, done in the heat of the moment, with insanity. You're claiming that if a person has time to plan then he's not insane. However, an insane person, regardless of the insanity reasons, can certainly plan something and carry it out. Wasn't that the defense being built for that Norwegian guy that killed dozens on an island?
My Afghan example still stands. The guy could be so affected, the pain so excruciating, to the point of insanity, that flying to the US 2 days later and killing people could seem a reasonable thing to do.
Just showing how biased you really are. Not that I agree with all this insanity crap, no one should get a free pass because he's "insane".
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