The conventional wisdom (translation: insanity) seems to be: “If someone kills their children, they’re a monster. But if someone who’s suicidal and depressed kills their children, it’s the mental illness that did it — and you should feel sorry for the killer; and forgive her.” This falsehood evades the crucial distinction between someone who’s suicidal versus someone who’s suicidal-homicidal. This particular person on trial who previously wanted to kill herself actually left her own life intact while taking her three children’s lives away. There’s a world of difference between: “I want to end my life” and “I want to end my life, and I’m taking you with me.” If you are incapable of — or unwilling to — make these kinds of fairly self-evident distinctions, and you’re willing to take the word of a medical “expert” over the plainly self-evident — then you’re just the kind of person to succumb to the 21st Century version of concentration camps and whatever insane evil idiocy is coming our way next.
The 21st Century is a sociopathic killer’s dream. Murder to your heart’s content. Even murder your own children. You will walk free — only requiring a psychiatrist’s note. And an incredibly gullible jury of your peers in a culture gone mad.
The 21st Century is the reason there will be no 22nd Century. Not a civilized one, at least.