Insanity!! how do you determine insanity?

Question

If a person drowns her five children in a bath tub she is insane, and if someone kills four or five people over an xbox, they are simply criminals..... where is the line of insanity?

Answer 1

Good question. And no good answer. Let's face it; justice is a pretty arbitrary concept. You can kill 50 (innocent)- men on a battlefield & come home a hero. Or you can kick your dog in public- & get 30 days in the Cooler for animal cruelty...-Who goes where & for what reason depends on everything but reality, sometimes. But until we figure out what to DO with the people we don't know what to do with- you never know where a messed up person will end up.

Answer 2

Insanity, as far as I know, is the mental inability to determine between right or wrong.

What Andrea Yates did was horrible, of course, but she's insane and she genuinely (according to the jury) thought that what she was doing was the right thing. She shouldn't go to jail or be put to death for being crazy... though she should be in a mental institution for life.

What about her husband, who convinced her to go off of her anti-psychotics so that they could have more kids? What about her mother-in-law, who was supposed to be staying with her during the day to keep an eye on the children and didn't bother to show up? Why isn't anybody questioning their actions?

Answer 3

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting Different Results is Insanity.

Answer 4

definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result

Answer 5

I think its when a person does something the same and expect a different outcome.

Answer 6

With insanity, isn't there a component of "self-indulgent subjectivism?"

Answer 7

you dont, other people do

Answer 8

good question!