Rationalization

[unixronin]

Q:  What do you do when you and two of your buddies, in a drunken haze, beat another acquaintance to death over a period of 24 hours or so, wrap his naked body in a tarpaulin and hide it in his garage, then get turned in to the police ten days later by a third friend to whom you boasted of the murder (and to whom you emailed camera-phone photos, at work, during the process)?

A:  If you live in Crotherton, Indiana, you claim that he was gay¹, and that it's therefore OK because you were afraid Teh Gay would get on you.

[1]  He wasn't.

Comments

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

So if I commit murder, then claim that mind rays from Mars made me do it and that's why my hat is lined with tinfoil but the government secretly sabotaged my tinfoil, it suddenly becomes a military threat to Earth?


There is zero evidence in this case thus far that the victim was gay, as his murderers claim. They picked "gay panic" as a defense because it was the only thing they could think of that they thought likely to keep them out of jail. It's not a hate crime. It's an excuse. Nothing more. It's on the level of "The dog ate my homework." Only nastier.