High School Gay Bashing Caught on Video. Bully Got Off with a 3 Day Suspension.

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Kasz216 said:

Which largely doesn't really gel, based on the fact that his family wasn't that religious for a large part of his life.

As for Pathological lying... it depends on how you define it.  In this case it was being used as "He lies repeatidly to get what he wants."   Which could be said of any number of people.  For example people addicted to perscription drugs who constantly go doctor shopping to get their fix.

In this case there was no insentive to lie.  In fact he ended up owning up for what the psyciatrist says he was lying about.

As for the diagnosis... I'm not sure if you missed this in another thread recently, but actually diagnosing a patient's motivations is actually is something you tend to not want to do because it's largely a guess and can cause negative effects.  Remember the whole DID/Sybil discussion?  It didn't really matter in this case, since it's a court case and really how much more fucked up could the guy get?  However, it's foolish to treat a psychological evaluation as a medical doctor's evaluration, and even they aren't spot on all the time.

Hell, considering they needed that doctor to testify you can gurantee the defense had a psychologist that argued the exact opposite... depending on how many psycolgoists testified you can gurantee there was way more then one diagnosis.

This is true, especially 'cause the defense initially argued that he was insane. I do think he had a reason to lie, that being that his father planned to use him as some sort of endorser for born again christians and creationism. Why he did it, I do not know. But as I said, that entire interview was phony.