Re: Funky: BEEP-boop, BEEP-boop, BEEP-boop....

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:13:16 +0000 (UTC),
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.D. Baldwin) wrote, perhaps
among other things:

>
>In the previous article, Antonio E. Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >I get the impression from this rather unsubtle sarcasm that you think
>> >my own position on the matter is unforgiving of mental problems as a
>> >criminal defense.  I am curious to know what in the above post could
>> >possibly have led you to form such a conclusion.
>> >
>> 
>>    "PTSD-induced psychosis made me do it"
>> 
>>    How am I *not* supposed to infer this as a ridicule of his defense?
>
>I eschew euphemism, often (okay, almost always) to the point of
>outright dysphemism.  Just because I choose to describe a thing in
>blunt terms does not mean I intend to ridicule it.
>
>If I'd meant to ridicule it, I would have said something like, "Oh,
>poor me, I got scared in Vietnam, so please don't hold me to account
>for that vicious murder I committed."  But I really do think PTSD and
>related disorders can be mitigating factors for even the most serious
>of crimes.  I think lawyers overreach a bit in trying (and, sometimes,
>succeeding at) them, but that doesn't mean I think the idea is
>entirely without merit.

Rings true to me, J.D.  Having some problems along those lines myself,
I echo all that you said.

Paul (Sgt., AF, sep.) Madarasz
-- 
Paul L. Madarasz
Tucson, Baja Arizona
"How 'bout cuttin' that rebop?"
             -- S. Kowalski


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