Quote Originally Posted by crazyladybutterfly View Post
ok i agree with you now. you can be accountable of your actions even if mentally ill like suffering from depression or bipolar disorder or antisocial personality disorder but for other pathologies you cannot like schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder where you cannot control your actions (i guess it s hard and sometimes almost impossible to control yourself in the before mentioned diseases but the fear of the "punishment of prison" is still greatly effective for most people with such diseases)
If a person is so mentally deranged that they're dangerous and can't control their actions, like a rabid dog, then I think it's the responsibility of the social services and psychiatrists to keep them in a secure hospital and medically treat them as they also have a duty to protect the public.