Trolls can now be sent to prison

[Alby_da_Wolf]

sapphi_snake said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

They should determine whether Asperger syndrome let him understand well enough that what he was doing was wrong, if his ability to understand that is crippled, they should cure him. Obviously the cure should be mandatory, he couldn't refuse it, as, willing and conscious or not, he's harming other people, and he should be allowed to access the net again only after he completes rehab for alcoholism and if he carefully gets the psychiatric support he needs for all the time he needs it, even lifetime. If he was partially aware of what he was doing, he should receive mandatory treatment and, if the penalty appliable to what he did, considering the mitigating factors, still exceeds the period of mandatory treatment, a period of mandatory socially useful work, while continuing treatment.

But punishing just him sends at least two horribly wrong signals: that justice is happy to catch and punish the first poor turd it can, just to make public opinion and the victims or their relatives happy, and after that it doesn't care anymore, and that the rich can get away with crime.

That's not how Asperger syndrome works. Look it up online. They're perfectly capable of controlling their actions (they're at least perfectly capable of controlling what they post online), and they can't be 'cured'. Regarding your previous post, this guy had bullied other people in a similar fashion, which clearly shows a criminal pattern. He deliberately went out to harass people, and looked for similar scenarios such as this. Even that YouTube video padib was talking abotu shows that this guy was no crazy person being controlled by voices he was hearing, but a cruel calculated individual.

What I read is that they can control their actions, but they have serious difficulties in social interaction. It can't be "healed", but it can be "cured", helping them in what they have most difficulties with. They know the meaning of what they say or write, but it's possible they don't get the appropriateness or inappropriateness of saying some things in some circumstances. In many case they can even learn the bases of humour, but not fully understand its purpose and when it's appropriate or not. What he did could be due to have mechanically learned the mechanisms of black humour, but not understood when it's inappropriate. His repetitive behaviour in trolling the relatives and friends of dead girls can also be caused by some of the the typical Asperger's communication and behaviour impairments.