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adults are responsible for their own actions, else no-one would ever be guilty of any crime

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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

adults are responsible for their own actions, else no-one would ever be guilty of any crime

Responsible for yes but, as always, explanations are not excuses and we should never let a public "resistance to excuses being made" (because some people don't understand that explanations are not excuses) stop any endeavor to find explanations and causes.

We don't say "childhood trauma can create criminals" to excuse the ones that have already been created... We say it to hopefully stop it before it happens. Obviously a utopian society is sadly never going to happen, but any improvement is still improvement.

Utterly maddening when people say "who cares what the reason was??" about killers.

Everyone should care. If you understand the reasons you might be able to stop someone else before it even happens.