Relating a baby soiling itself to a person raping/molesting another person due to them having been raped/molested --- how does that even make sense to you?
Niether are really in control of their actions, thus the comparison is valid.
And what? These people that don't "survive" the "psychological scarring" means that they should be permitted to rape and molest other people?
No.
And if you say no, then how do you reason that they shouldn't be stuffed in a jail cell? Because they're mentally ill and deserve an asylum?
Depends. But yes, mentally ill people need help to get better. Some never get better, and unfortunately that means a permanent stay in hospital if they post a danger to society as a whole.
In this case I can't say whether the mother is medically competent, but just like murdering your wife in a fit of rage after coming home to find her sleeping with another man, having been abused as a child is definately a mitigating circumstance. (That is, the person who murdered his wife in a fit of rage will get a lesser sentence than the person who murdered his wife because he wanted the life inusrance.)
I'm sorry, but if someone's too weak to get over feeling sorry for themselves and want to go all emo and then still have the audacity to abuse other people - that's not an excuse. If they go the same route, then they deserve the same sentence - there's no excusing that.
How absolutely disgusting. I suppose you think that brainwashed individuals are entirely to blame for their actions too?
Do you even know what brainwashing entails? I'll give you a starting point : one of the first things you have to do is to psychologically traumatise someone. Sexually abusing them is an excellent way of achieving that.
You may want to see the movie A Clockwork Orange. Or actually you probably won't; but it will shed some light on the situation that you so callously dismiss.
You keep relating things to a physical aspect that people have no control over. If a guy gets shot in the heart (as you said) does that mean he'll go and shoot another guy in the heart because he was? If a baby soils itself, does that mean the person who cleans the baby will soil themselves too? I'm sorry, but your reasoning is flawed.
Au contraire.
The heart analogy was merely to demonstrate that people react differently to different circumstances. That you go and falsely try and apply that to the
other aspects of the situation is your mistake, not mine.
The baby crap analogy was simply to demonstrate that you can't blame someone for something they have no control over. That you go and falsely try and apply that to the other] aspects of the situation is again your mistake, not mine.
Blaming "psychological scarring" for the evils that people commit and do - isn't an excuse. A murderer could've grown up in a cruel and murderous environment - does that excuse it?
Depends. It certainly would be a mitigating circumstance.
Should they be granted the privilege of a mental asylum too?
Again, depends. Maybe.
If people are that weak, that they would follow the same route, then they deserve the same fate. If you touch a hot stove plate, it is still hot - no matter which hand you touch it with.
So the guy who got shot in the heart and died... deserved to die because he was too weak to live?