And I thought you and I were the only sane people on this board.

Now I’m beginning to worry about you.

Why? Murder is an act of depravity and evil, but you don't have to be insane to do it.

For example, one of our local real estate developers apparently tried to have his wife killed. They were going through a bitter divorce, and he didn't want to lose half his fortune. So he hired some guys to try to kill her.

The guys he hired weren't insane. They were willing to kill a person for money. Neither was the developer insane. He wanted to kill his wife so that he wouldn't lose money.

Those choices are evil, not the result of an inability of their brains to function properly. They were fully cognizant of what they were doing, capable of understanding the difference between right and wrong, capable of exercising judgment, and capable of making choices for themselves. They just chose to do the immoral evil thing. They don't meet the legal definition of insanity (obviously), but I don't think they meet the colloquial definition of insanity either. Their mental processes were not so disordered that they lacked the ability to cogitate or apprehend the choices they were making.

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