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Originally Posted by Fiddler
That above isn't exactly "controlling" your behaviour, as much as it is "changing" your behaviour. What I'm talking about is for instance a person with personality disorder. They might like to insult other people to make them feel bad etc. Or a phsycotic person, even he can at some level control his doings. A person doesn't have to be happy, there's nothing there to control, but if you get angry and beat somebody up just because you're feeling angry. Even if you have a personality disorder, you are still fully responsible for beating somebody up.
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Legally this is correct and I agree 100%
But scientifically harder to say. How can any one in their right mind do any thing bad or wrong or evil? Is it possible to be in your right mind and still do things contrary to a sane person? What person in their right mind goes around beating people up? Or robbing them, or killing them? While they still must be held accountable for their actions. We can't say for sure if they were in their right mind or not. Even a sane normal person can snap at any time. Break from being in their right mind. We would have to be able to control all of our emotions and feelings to be able to always stay in our right mind. Who can do that 24/7 their whole life? I doubt any one has that much control over their behavior. So this question can be a rather deeper question then first meets they.