Catnip1024 said:
Damn, you've picked a logical flaw in the thinking of an insane person. Because insane people are notorious for their logical thinking...
Let's be honest, anybody committing murders like that is screwed up to some degree, the question is rather to do with the degree to which they could be considered to control themselves, sort of thing.
I picked two logical flaws.
First, most laws for criminal insanity like The 'Model Penal Code' Test for Legal Insanity [http://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/the-model-penal-code-test-for-legal-insanity.html?version=2] has qualifications.
using the MPC test, a legally insane individual must have been diagnosed with a mental defect (typically by a court-appointed mental health professional) and either did not know right from wrong or lacked the ability to control an impulse that led to the incident.
Trying to flee the crime for fear of getting in trouble over her actions? Yeah, that meant she knew right from wrong. The fact that their story kept changing to blame the other to protect themselves after they were caught [http://nypost.com/2017/01/22/inside-kids-chilling-slenderman-murder-plot/]?
Upon their arrest hours later, Morgan and Anissa, in separate interrogations, would tell detectives conflicting accounts. Morgan said the plot to kill Payton was Anissa's idea; Anissa said it was Morgan's. After the attack, Morgan was surprised by how calm she felt, and Anissa was equally surprised that she felt on the verge of 'a total nervous breakdown.' Neither girl seemed particularly concerned about the fate of the other, though Anissa did ask, 'Where's Bella's body now?' and it took her a moment to absorb what the detective told her, that Payton was somehow still alive, in the hospital and conscious enough to tell the police who had done this to her.
Anissa and Morgan, however, had one consistent thread in their stories to police: They were driven to kill in the name of an internet apparition called Slenderman.
And also given that they plotted for it for a long while [http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/22/girls-who-tried-kill-slender-man-264218.html].
In the intervening months, Geyser and Weier whispered about their plan, sometimes while riding the bus, often using code words like 'camping trip' (to refer to the Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin's Northwoods, where they believed Slender Man lived). On the evening of Friday, May 30, Geyser, Weier and the victim went roller skating and then headed back to Geyser's house for a sleepover. Geyser and Weier knew when they were going to stab their friend: 2 a.m. And how: cover the girl's mouth with duct tape, stab her in the neck and then pull the covers over her. Then they'd run.
But they didn?t kill their friend that night. 'I wanted to give [the victim] one more day,' Geyser told police.
They knew right from wrong. They could control their impulses for months.
They just didn't care.
That goes to the actual flaw I was pointing out. Because no one wants to come to grips that even little girls can be just wrong. They'll make charges of insanity so they can sleep at nights, knowing that they only have to fear certain people. And anyone who actually fits their mindset of "safe" that does anything wrong is simply mentally imbalanced.
Why? So they don't have to come to grips with reality that anyone can be evil. At any age. Since "reasonable" people can't bear to believe that, they have to invent a reason. This event could have only happened because they were insane. That is dangerous to everyone and a massive flaw that we all need to recognize.
If you create a law system based on feelings instead of statutes, you render the whole thing absolutely meaningless.