Great Response to “Mentally Ill”
Received a comment on the “Mentally Ill” piece of 3/10 that was worth posting, as it revealed and nailed an undesirable unintended consequence of my POV. The comment and my response to it follow:
BB-gunn Says: March 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am LK, love your points as well as the Falcon’s on this, but bring on the intelligent 13 year-old. Despite whatever underlying disorder or syndrome that may or may not exist, it is clearly not debilitating enough to mask the difference in Spitzer’s own mind between right and wrong. Hell, he was certainly capable of exercising that discernment in his judgment of countless others. Thus, sane enough to stand trial both in court and in public opinion, and “dopey” enough to commit the act and get caught.
LK Says: March 15th, 2008 at 8:13 pm Excellent refinement BB. He may be mentally ill by my standards and in need of treatment by clinical standards, but that shouldn’t allow him to claim being temporarily unable to tell right from wrong, although I doubt his core vanity would allow him to plead anything resembling insanity, even if it meant not saving his sorry hypocritical self.
The image isn’t pretty, and may be ultra-cold, but Spitzer shouldn’t be exempt from picking up the proverbial bar of soap in the communal shower. Resigning in disgrace isn’t doing penance; whatever the modern version of the stockade is, coupled with lashes administered by every citizen he betrayed seems appropriate.
George H.W. Bush just called and said I needed to work on the forgiveness thing.
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