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Re:How should society judge a defendant with a brain tumor? ... by Enginerrrd on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:36PM (#24075720)
>If the tumor didn't affect the decisions that led to the defendant being a defendant

...But that's literally exactly the question at play in the title. When the tumor DOES affect the decisions that make the defendant the defendant.

All I can add is that having spent a lot of time on the meditation cushion observing the workings of my own brain, it's laughable to me that people think they have control over their brain. And by some very objective standards most would consider me to have quite a bit of such control. I can attest that this control is a massive illusion.

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Re:How should society judge a defendant with a brain tumor? ... by mikece on Thursday August 06, 2020 @05:42PM (#24075782)
Totally right and after thinking about it I came back to remove the first sentence -- that facts don't care about your medical condition -- of my comment because it contradicted the rest of what I said.
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