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Originally Posted by phoenix
I can see how someone might think of money as the only answer, and feel disappointed, even wildly depressed.
My point was more that I believe people either have the mind set to do something like this, or they don't. For a lot of people who lose everything, life becomes incredibly sad and unbearable. It doesn't mean they all are driven to violence. Those with the mental potential to commit a violent crime that is unprovoked, are not average people. I really believe people have a predisposition toward committing violent crime, some more than others.
In a court case I can see how the person's troubles might be used as defence, because it can influence their behaviour, but at the end of the day I don't think the decision to shoot your entire family is a normal one, no matter what happens to you. Pleading mental illness would get you a lot further than 'I had no money left'
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I can see that for sure. I mean, when it comes down to it, either you can be pushed over the border of killing your family or you can't, bottom line.
But of course, that is a hard thing to gauge. Because as long people are killing their families, we can always say about that person that they were in some way mentally predisposed to this sort of action. If somebody that we are certain would never do this, does, then we would just have to say we were wrong and that actually they were always able to be pushed that far.
So I'm sure you are right. I'm sure there are people who would never do this. I'd like to think I'm one of them. But unfortunately this system doesn't provide us a way to find these people
before they do these horrible thing.
NOTE: I
KNOW this was not your point and I went way too far with it. I was just having what they call a "stream of consciousness." Dig?
