If possible, name examples of well known people that you think would classify for this.
2007-03-24 09:23:34 · 9 answers · asked by truthinessness 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
The legal definition would be someone who lacks the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
It's usually reserved for people suffering from a severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, where their capacity to distinguish between reality and fantasy has been severely diminished, as well as their ability to understand the consequences of their actions... both are legal requirements for establishing guilt.
Other forms of mental illness might not meet these requirements. A sociopath wouldn't, for example, since they still have the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
2007-03-24 09:42:48 · answer #1 · answered by opifan64 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is a very clear definition of legal insanity known as the M'Naghten rule.
2007-03-24 09:27:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are a number of diverse criminal definitions of what's loosely talked approximately as "sanity." there is culpability, this is wisdom of suitable and incorrect on the time against the regulation became committed; there is competence to stand trial, this is in spite of if the defendant can communicate with advice and help in his or her very own protection; and then there is being an "incapacitated person," meaning somebody who has been legally desperate to be incompetent to look after themselves or their affairs. you could think of something you prefer, yet as quickly as you start up writing approximately or telling people approximately ideas of violence, suicide, or in spite of, they become verbal or written movements and honest sport for the criminal device. you purely chosen to place your self in possibility, and, "you chosen poorly."
2016-12-15 08:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Forbes Nash Jr. portrayed in "A Beautiful Mind" (2001).
Brilliant, but still insane by society's standards....schizophrenia scares me!! Poor people who have it :(:(
2007-03-24 10:05:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pretty much every man would be what i consider legally insane
2007-03-24 09:28:36 · answer #5 · answered by Neophyte 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
killing people for no reason or doing stupid things against the law for fun and no reason i guess
or making funny noises
2007-03-24 09:26:40 · answer #6 · answered by dingster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the wife.
2007-03-24 09:25:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me!
2007-03-24 10:00:59 · answer #8 · answered by Boogerman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rape.
2007-03-24 09:33:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋