--- In [email protected], iranitea <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > With all due respect, I see any attempt to blame bad > > behavior and bad decisions on "entities" or the "Dark > > Side" or "astral beings" or being "possessed" as just > > the person in question being unwilling to take respon- > > sibility for being either crazy, or an asshole, or both. > > With all due respect, there are legal terms for when a > person can be held accountable or not. Ask Mrs. Stein > about that, before a certain time, RC was in a delusional > state of UC, and may be excused for everything that > happened at this time.
A good point, and I stand corrected. Silly me, I was thinking of a world in which people *wanted* to take responsibility for their own actions. I hadn't con- sidered the alternative, in which those who buy RC's "It wasn't my fault, I was in a delusional state of consciousness" thang are already thinking ahead to their OWN defense, when the authorities finally come for *them*. "It wasn't my fault. I was misled by a cult. They told me it was enlightened to act this way." :-)
