A personality disorder is not a mental illness in any case. There is no distortion of one's perception of reality that would form the basis of an insanity plea with a personality disorder. They're not crazy, they're just evil and poisonous.
Insanity did not start as a medical term, but rather a legal term to defend those who were completely incapable of understanding their actions or right from wrong. Mood disturbances or narcisism does not qualify and only in extreme cases like schitzophrenia does it work,
That said, this is not a legal case. I see what you are saying. By that same strict legal standard, Alec is also not insane.
I think Zoe is bat shit insane. Not in the legal sense though, in the medical sense. I think they understand right and wrong, they just have fucked up views, 0 impulse control, and abnormal thought patterns with abnormal defense mechanisms. But you're technically right, insane in the medical sense is very different than "I have a mood disorder and no impulse control"
Remember those Zoe Quinn videos by Quarter Pounder? Her orbiters are going after his blood on Twitter by reporting him and trying to get him banned. It was trending from #zoequinnbodycount.
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I don't have much hope for any kind of "real" justice. I think this has all died down. I think the only way it will lead to some sort of mass shit storm is if Zoe gets hacked and her DMs show some seriously fucked stuff, or the people who actually cared about this guy get together and decide to shoot back. That would be a catastrophic shit storm I could only imagine. The people trying to use the sister as a shield, the arm chair psychologists trying to give some "anger is part of the grief process" speech, trying to call them crazy, trying to #MeToo them too, etc.
Unfortunately this will never happen. Why? In Scotts post we read Alec always worked and it drove him insane, and Alec always reached out to artist indie game dev types. I am guessing he had some sort of aspergers along with his mood disorders which would make him no the most social butterfly unless it was work related. Any friends he had were most likely all part of the indie scene and you see what happens when you step out of line. If anyone actually cares about him, they are spineless and not saying shit.
What we're seeing is Zoe and co trying to hide anyone who tells the world about Zoes actions. They are trying to hide it in hopes it goes away. That didn't work so they banned people and doubled down that its not their faults because they can't make it go away and they know how it looks so at the very least they wanna frame it as favorable to them.
And no matter what, they will pretend they are winners and winning is all that matters.