Guys, here's the thing. Everyone is talking about the Lindsay Clancy case but since it's being argued that mental health should cause us to identify any crime committed as a no-fault crime, I'd like to advocate for a couple innocent boys who were traumatized in their youth and ended up committing acts of violence due to their mental health conditions.
One boy was actually bullied and set on fire by the neighborhood kids and suffered horrific burns as a result, and only through some supernatural miracle did he survive it. He ended up forging some knives as weapons and putting them on his hands just to defend himself. Can we really blame him if anything bad happened from that point on? The other boy drowned in a lake when at camp one summer with no one to help due to the negligence of the camp counselors. Luckily, he was able to survive only to be taunted by the lives of camp counselors who kept coming back to the site and reminding him of his trauma. He was so disturbed by what happened that he couldn't even show his face and had to wear a hockey mask.
Did they kill people? Yes. Was it really their fault? How can we blame the mentally ill for anything they do? Is it not really the fault of bullies? Is it not really the fault of camp counselors? Is it not really the fault of the water and the fire that traumatized these poor, innocent boys who were really the victims of carelessness and malice?
Maybe it's time to blame the negligent people at Camp Crystal Lake or the bullies who lived on Elm Street. It's time to stop blaming monsters and to start blaming the monsters of circumstance, hormonal imbalances, inanimate substances, and especially husbands since we know that no husband is a good husband unless he's a feminist simp. Of course, these two didn't have husbands, so we'll blame the next best thing: bad experiences, which apparently are unique to murderers.
I mean, haven't we all had those bad days where we feel like hacking up a few annoying college kids?
Maybe instead of being so judgmental we should be starting GoFundMe accounts for the poor Vorhees and Kruger families, You Judgmental Judgers Who Are Judgie.
Well, that's just my two cents. May we all grab our machetes and forge a new path through the younger generation that is more tolerant and understanding of those who lash out, not because they're bad people, but because bad things have happened to them (in Lindsay's case having the blessing of a child) and because hurt people hurt people. Let us all remember the immortal words of Jack the Ripper to his many victims, who said, and I quote, "It is not I who kill you, but my mental illness."
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