Insane killer caught. Recent headline in our local paper. Was taken out for a field trip, decided to grab some freedom, escaped, did some stuff ( apparently none of which was illegal apart from escaping ), and then gave himself up. Yet he's still insane. I recognize that the reason for an insanity plea is a comprehensible lack of understanding the consequences of your actions; that any trial would be a futile act if it did not impress upon the convicted of the gravity of their deed, but..........
this guy been insane for some time; twenty plus years. This begs the question: were his present day actions indicative of an insane person, or the rational act of an irrational mind?
Maybe that's saying the same thing.
Metaphorically speaking, this seems a rational act in an irrational world. As I've indicated in previous posts, I'm not exactly enamoured of our present day ministrations, but it is what it is. In reading about our local insane killer's day off, the thought occurred to me how many others trapped; imprisoned, so to speak, by their choices in life wouldn't like to escape for a while to experience a taste of freedom. God knows I would; but that's just me.
If you been insane for the better part of your life, but you are still rational enough for a field trip; rational enough yet again to plot an escape, when then are you no longer insane, and do you then begin the process of paying your debt to society? Or is your time while confined as insane enough? It is, one would think, problematic, and evocative of why people are leery of persons who are " insane "; especially if that has allowed them to avoid prison. They are still incarcerated, but the impression is that being held for insanity is better than plain old prison.
I couldn't tell as I've quote avoided both up to this point. I have, in my finer moments, felt imprisoned by my choices at times, but I assume all people do now and again.
I have a field trip coming up, so I have to go.
