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John Hinckley Jr., escaped conviction for his attempted assassination of President Reagan with psychiatric “assistance.” | |
he so-called “insanity defense” was only the beginning. Psychiatry has given us an ever-increasing number of “illnesses,” “mania” and “disorders” which are then employed to justify wrongdoing and set criminals free to steal, harm or kill again.
For example:
An arsonist who routinely sets people and their property on fire could be excused as suffering from “pyromania disorder.”
A person who seems unable to restrain himself from stealing — whether a shoplifter or an auto-thief — may be suffering from “kleptomania disorder.”
A child molester or child rapist could escape conviction by claiming to suffer from “pedophilia disorder.”
A man who repeatedly batters his wife for personal satisfaction could go unpunished by claiming he was suffering from “paraphelia disorder.”
