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Pointless Sperg If this is the case, there's no way Chris is going to prison for any substantial amount of time. Incest is so horrific that normies would instinctively question the sanity of the participants in an attempt to attribute it to mental illness as they cannot comprehend how a sane person could do it. Conveniently for Chris, he is clearly mentally ill, and so the normies have their scapegoat. The people involved with Chris's legal case aren't Christorians and don't know the details about Chris's relationship with Barb, to them, it would seem like an obvious case of
the crime happened because he was mentally ill.
They don't have to show him mercy, it's just an option that they can consider. In this case it's mostly based on whether he's at risk of reoffending and if, with proper care, he can stay out of trouble in general.
It's an attempt to find a middle ground between completely nuthouse fruitbat and being considered completely responsible for your actions as a sound-minded individual.
Again it's not new, this kind of thing used to be an option until the late-70's/early-80's, but it was revoked pretty much everywhere in the zeal to punish the evil that took hold around that time, peaking in the 90's. It was a time when society collectively A-logged.
I think it's clear that it's appropriate to treat Chris as a tard. He is not the sort of criminal that consciously tries to achieve personal gain without getting caught. Even stupid criminals normally at least have a *rational* plan that they're just too dumb to formulate and execute on. They're dumb and they get caught.
Or to put it another way, regular criminals usually do things that in some way make their lives better if they don't get caught. They get money from robbing a store, or they get pussy from raping an attractive woman, or they murder someone who is causing problems for their illegal business, etc.
Chris' illegal and immoral acts gain him nothing. It's not just that he breaks the law, but he breaks the law in retarded ways. A non-retarded person would never commit the crimes he does. Maybe the shoplifting, if it actually happened, but if he was shoplifting retarded pony shit then even that might not count.
So yeah, I think it's appropriate to not hold Chris to the same level of responsibility as someone who isn't retarded. But similarly I think he shouldn't have the same level of freedom -- just something more nuanced and less restrictive than prison.
It's beginning to look like there won't even be a trial.
It was never likely that there would be a trial, not even when we thought they were going the indictment route. At that point it just went from almost certainly not going to happen, to holy shit there's a small chance that it might happen.
How he passed the written part of the test is a mystery.
Chris has the ability to memorize things when it's something he gives a shit about. He still has that aspect of autism, just a more stupid form where he has to be *really* invested in something for him to pay attention, as opposed to the brand of nerdsperg that I have where I click the random article button on Wikipedia for fun.
When the stars align enough for Chris to apply himself he can actually reach a level that could be called competent. It's just fleetingly rare. Chris is stupid, but only mildly so. His retardation isn't extremely low intelligence, it's extremely low capacity to activate and apply it. It doesn't make him unbelievably stupid, just unbelievably foolish.
Or to put it in sperg terms. INT maybe 8 or 9, WIS somewhere between 3 and 5.
He probably failed it a couple of times until his deep seated desire to be able to drive to the GAMe PLACe whenever he wanted prompted him to memorize enough to barely pass. The written tests in most states have a few difficult questions, but not enough to make it particularly difficult to get a passing grade.
As such, if a student got a U in mocks, and was consistently terrible, they would find themselves not entered.
Some schools in the US, particularly colleges/universities, have an "I" grade, meaning "Incomplete". It's not that you were terrible at the material, it's just that you didn't do it.