So did you hear that Pistorius was found not guilty of murder?
Apparently, society’s approval of unhinged hysterics who claim to freak out over completely imaginary threats and slaughter innocent people is not an exclusively American thing.
I’m very intrigued by the magic powers of this “I felt threatened for absolutely no reason so I murdered people” defense. It seems to leave folks world over weak in the knees. Fear – no matter how ridiculous and irrational – justifies everything, even murder. Burly armed fellows kill kids, pregnant women, unarmed teenagers, then claim they were scared and everybody exclaims, “Oh well, in that case, the freak totally deserves this!”
Societies that would never even consider conceding everybody the right to laziness, weakness, incapacity to make money and a whole host of other pretty normal things easily grant the right to murder because of a psychological problem that is not in any way different. It’s beyond bizarre that while nobody would take seriously the defense of “I was lazy and bored so I killed an unarmed person in the toilet”, the defense of “I chose to be irrationally scared and committed murder” is constantly given so much weight.
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I’m very intrigued by the magic powers of this “I felt threatened for absolutely no reason so I murdered people” defense.
It only works for certain people. If you’re not white, a celebrity, a man, or a cop or some combination thereof, forget the “I’m afraid” defense. And it only works if you appear to have higher social status than your victim. The people who have the least to fear want you to believe they are on the edge of pants-shitting terror every waking moment and want you to cater to their fear endlessly and endure endless violations of your rights and your safety and liberty.
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Well he was found guilty of a slightly lesser charge and will definitely be spending time in prison (unless he skips to a country that won’t extradite him).
From some quick reading it sounds like the charge he was found guilty of is between second degree murder and manslaughter in the US.
My own opinion is that it still sounds like roid rage (that is, he was taking performance enhancing drugs which increase aggression) and in the US would be looking at second degree murder. For first degree murder they’d have to be able to prove that he planned it ahead of time, which is I think pretty unlikely.
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