Natasha Whittam wrote:
Firstly, a judge might not come out and say it but research shows that mentally ill people get substantially less prison time than people who are deemed to be sane. People get off using the "by reason of insanity" plea all the time.
Secondly, don't try and make me feel bad by calling me ignorant, unlike you I didn't go to PC school and a spade is a spade where I come from. Calling someone "slow" is a fact, just like calling a homosexual "gay".
For the last time, someone who commits murder, rape or child abuse should be locked up for good - there should NEVER be an excuse. Unfortunately the world is full of do-gooders like yourself who would rather risk setting a kiddie fiddler free than abuse his/her "human rights".
Seeing as you haven't answered my question, I assume you are backing down from accusing me of criticising you for things you didn't say.
Of COURSE people who are mentally ill get shorter sentences, this is what we have been discussing and the whole point of your post!!! No judge needs to "come out and say it".
Since the late 1990s, anyone with racist, homophobic or any other prejudiced opinions, when criticised, comes out with the stock counter argument that the person criticising them is "part of the PC brigade" or that a given situation is "political correctness gone mad". It doesn't wash with me, or anyone else with a brain, to see through that. I am not politically correct. I do not espouse politically correct opinions as a matter of course. Did you read my comments last week about gay marriage? Did you not read my above post where I said personally I'd want someone who wilfully killed one of my loves ones dead? It was in answer to a direct question you asked me, so surely you read that. How is that political correctness? You've totally lost the plot in this discussion.
So we're back to square one.
So long as you insist on isolating yourself from the realities of the human condition in the twenty first century, you should restrict yourself to posting about football and trivialities such as whether fat people should work in gyms.