Doesn't necessarily make him more culpable, but does make him more dangerous b/c he's less controllable. The hitman at least has a basic incentive system society can tap into. Max-security psych wards are always an option. They might as well be prisons.
I take it as asking "when a person is a person and by how much?", but that's me. At some point someone can lose their humanity, though it has to get pretty extreme (case in point) to get that far. When it comes to sanity, the law is muddled.
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Date: 2009-02-26 09:19 am (UTC)I take it as asking "when a person is a person and by how much?", but that's me. At some point someone can lose their humanity, though it has to get pretty extreme (case in point) to get that far. When it comes to sanity, the law is muddled.