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The_root_of_all_evil said:
I thought the term "psychotic" had been replaced with "sociopathic" now?
I think psycho/socio pathic (There's some subtle differences between the two) is considered more politically correct when describing a person. To describe somebody as 'psychotic' doesn't make sense anyway. But the term psychotic exists as in 'Psychotic disorder'. That said I'm not sure if 'Psychotic state' is an accurate usage of the word.
'The observed person was psychotic.' is definitely wrong.
So we're going from 'It's not society's fault cos video games' to 'It's not society's fault cos schizophrenia'
Brilliant.
On the one hand it's nice that something other than videogames are being blamed, I'm sure that's reassuring to the majority of this community, and fair play to you all.
On the other hand as far as society is concerned very little has changed because 'hey, it's nobody's fault, he had a mental disorder, hooray' and things like this will continue to happen.
*Sigh*
Jegsimmons said:
he still needs the death penalty.....which you guys dont have, just a maximum of what? 25 years?
In Norway? 21 years, though that can be extended in jumps of 5 years if the criminal is still deemed a threat to society, theoretically this can extend to life imprisonment.
But that won't happen because Norway don't have a ham-fisted and ineffective approach to dealing with crime (Apparently they're still concerningly eager to play the mental illness card though). They listen to people who know what they're talking about when it comes to criminal justice, unlike certain other countries.