The “not knowing any better”. The “I didn’t realize that would hurt you.” The “It wasn’t like me so I didn’t think it mattered.” I just want to stop and call it human madness.
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I don’t think that’s a term, but it should be. It usually has something to do with “I didn’t stop to think that the person I was hurting was also a living being with thoughts and emotions”
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This would have applied when I was 17, I was always in trouble with the Police as a teenager.
I was criminally ignorant.
I committed a crime when I had taken loads of magic mushrooms, and by time I was in court for it, I had full-blown psychosis and flipped out on a magistrate judge with some crazy delusions. She sentenced me to 12 months for what I had done even though they only had one side of the story that was factually in correct.
As soon as I hit the youth offenders prison, they transferred me straight to a hospital ward at another prison where i was assessed and then taken to hospital in my local town.
It then went to Crown court as an appeal, and even the prosecution person according to my mother said that the wrong decision had been made and the crown court judge was furious that I had been treated in this way with drug and mental health issues.
My memory of this came back to me the other day and I found out some of this information from my mum just talking.
I think my experience validates your comments, and even to the level of a crown court agreeing that this was the case.
I probably shouldn’t be posting things like this, but everyone has a past - I have not committed any crimes since being treated for a problem rather than being punished. I still barely left a cell for a month.
I think this provides a sample of anecdotal context.
In some cases yes. For example in nz it is against the law to swear
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