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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a Clancy “Stan”, but I do feel sympathy toward her.

Its not because I secretly also want to kill my kids.

It might be due to unconscious bias, as I am also white and a professional. And if so, that’s something I need to acknowledge and actively work against in the future.

But what I think what it is, is that for us sympathizers, we love our kids so much and cannot in a million years imagine killing them, so we assume that Clancy - perhaps because she looks like us? Has a similar lifestyle to us? - must have had something so crazy wrong with her brain for a brief moment because surely she wouldn’t do this on purpose.

Just my two cents. I appreciate everyone’s differing perspectives. Three innocent lives lost, let’s hope some new knowledge / understanding about mental health and social media and unconscious bias comes out of this mess. [/quote]

Do you think she should be held accountable for her actions?[/quote]

I feel like I don’t have a deep enough understanding of what was going on here to say whether she should go to prison for life, a psych ward or be released with strict restrictions ([b]like they did with Hinkley[/b]). I feel like I’m “missing” something here, because it just does not compute why a woman with so much privilege, intellect (ie she was a nurse / gainfully employed) and options could do this to innocent children. [/quote]

Like they did with Hickley?? You're skipping over the three-plus decades he spent in institutionalized psychiatric care. He wasn't released with conditions until 35 years later.  [/quote]

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