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In reply to the discussion: Could science convince you that the shooter was not ethically responsible for his actions? [View all]Orsino
(37,428 posts)39. Yes.
Not one scientist or doctor, but a medical/psychiatric consensus? Yeah.
I'm not hung up on "evil" as a descriptor, and no one factor or person is going to be to blame. The shooter was as he was made and how he was treated by the world, and it's conceivable that by the tme of the shooting he didn't have much agency.
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