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The Strange Case of the Stanford LSD Stabbing (melmagazine.com)
1 point by danso on Feb 21, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


An interesting moral question. Someone who kills a pedestrian while drunk is deemed guilty not because he willfully killed the pedestrian, but because he willingly consumed alcohol and drove, which he should have known could result in devastating consequences.

On the other hand, someone taking LSD could reasonably be expected not to know that it could make him murderous. On the other other hand, one could argue that one is responsible for whatever results from doing something illegal.




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