Evil or Sick?
The Lindsay Clancy case is resurfacing a fresh debate about mens rea and actus reus—that is, the guilty mind and the guilty act.
And it’s running along the same lines it always has.
Was she evil, or was she sick? Prison, or hospital?
You know how this goes.
One side says it was a choice. The other says the choice was made for her, by her wiring, her childhood, or her biochemistry. Prosecutors build the first story. Defense attorneys hire experts to build the second. Then twelve people are meant to settle a question philosophers haven’t settled in three thousand years—ideally in time for…
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