Incapable of feeling? Biologically incapable? Can a person - or creature, as you say - be blamed for something that zie is incapable of?
... Yet, such a lack of judgment could be dangerous to others. However, there is still a difference. If one does not know the harm one is doing, one lacks intent behind one's actions. The actions themselves may be reprehensible, and not intending them does not excuse them, but it is a very different matter when one intends to cause harm, and one simply causes harm without knowledge.
[Robert himself has hurt people without realizing. It didn't stop him from hurting people just because he didn't know - but it wasn't like he meant to.]
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Date: 2011-05-18 02:08 am (UTC)Incapable of feeling? Biologically incapable? Can a person - or creature, as you say - be blamed for something that zie is incapable of?
... Yet, such a lack of judgment could be dangerous to others. However, there is still a difference. If one does not know the harm one is doing, one lacks intent behind one's actions. The actions themselves may be reprehensible, and not intending them does not excuse them, but it is a very different matter when one intends to cause harm, and one simply causes harm without knowledge.
[Robert himself has hurt people without realizing. It didn't stop him from hurting people just because he didn't know - but it wasn't like he meant to.]