I think that point is it should be taken into account.
> Someone is is genuinely mentally unwell in a way that results in them harming other people must still be kept away from society!
That is extremely poor and dangerous argument for putting them in jail in bad evidence. But yeah, when innocent people get into jail, it is fairly often on arguments like this.
> No one is currently convicted on the basis of a confession alone[1]. Normally a confession just means that the investigation into the confessor is more thorough than it would ordinarily be
Bases in innocence project, people who were provably not guilty were sentenced to death on confessions. And there is literally zero reason to think it is stopped happening.
>> Someone is is genuinely mentally unwell in a way that results in them harming other people must still be kept away from society!
> That is extremely poor and dangerous argument for putting them in jail in bad evidence.
Who made that argument?
Here's what I said:
>> the sanity/insanity of an individual makes no difference to whether they are guilty or not, it only changes the specific nature of the charge (i.e. premeditated vs culpable) and the sentencing (asylum or prison). Someone is is genuinely mentally unwell in a way that results in them harming other people must still be kept away from society!
Why on earth would you snip away my text about ASYLUM, and instead warble on about putting those people in JAIL?
I'm genuinely curious about the motivation to pretend that my argument is different to what I said, and then argue against your pretend version of my argument.
> Someone is is genuinely mentally unwell in a way that results in them harming other people must still be kept away from society!
That is extremely poor and dangerous argument for putting them in jail in bad evidence. But yeah, when innocent people get into jail, it is fairly often on arguments like this.
> No one is currently convicted on the basis of a confession alone[1]. Normally a confession just means that the investigation into the confessor is more thorough than it would ordinarily be
Bases in innocence project, people who were provably not guilty were sentenced to death on confessions. And there is literally zero reason to think it is stopped happening.