Medical Science can actually prove some things that 20 yrs ago we chalked up to bad behavior or impulse control issues. Mental illness, substance abuse are REAL diseases.I work with some of the patients.To say it is something people can stop or change simply Thats like saying Obese people have impulse control issues and can just stop eating and or ADHD isn't real, kids need to sit and pay attention, depressed people need to go out and exercise and snap out of it...Just because diseases don't manifest tangible symptoms that you can overtly see,touch and smell does not make them any less real..I am not saying she should use a mental illness to get herself out of trouble.
I just saying doctors and lawyers will say and testify to anything.
See the thread on the parks board with the woman "suffering from ongoing "injuries" such as severe pain, mental anxiety, anguish, and physical problems ranging from nausea and digestive problems to headaches and cold sweats.
because she claims Donald Duck gropped her.
Her claim aside, she got a lawyer and a doctor to support that.
And that's why I think claiming smoking and drinking addition is a disease is bogus attempt to get someone else to pay the bill to fix it instead of accepting responsiblity for their own actions.
If they did, they would have to pay for it.
A lawyer will say it to get money from a law suit.
A doctor will say it to avoid liablity.
People accept it so insurance will cover it or be able to go to a "free clinic" (nothings free someone is paying something, usually it's taxpayers)
Point is it's more about money than actually being a disease.
Take a look, suddenly everything is a disease that needs doctors to prescribe something for.
RLS (restless leg sydrome) Please...stop drinking so much caffine right before going to bed.
It's about money.
That's MHO.
In this case it's easier to say she sick that to accept she's selfish.
Again point out she wasn't sorry till she got caught.
And without any medical help suddenly acknowledges it was wrong.
Sorry I don't believe she is mentally ill. Just a selfish shallow person.
Truth is there's alot of just not very nice people out there. And they do bad things. That doesn't make them mentally ill. They just don't care.
Yes I agree she should be punished.