Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-172.56.39.164-20151229050416/@comment-4010415-20151231051804

Yeahhh, I assume "Someone used illusions on me" would get the same treatment as "Your honor, my client pleads insanity". By that, I mean: "Prove it."

In our world, you cannot just go "I plead insanity" and expect the judge to say "Oh, well, in that case..." It has to be proven that you were not in the right state of mind to understand what you were doing. Yeah, that's what the insanity plea is: "I was not in the right state of mind to understand what I was doing and that what I did was bad." If you successfully get charged with your crime being chalked up to insanity, you still get incarcerated, it's just that you're sent to a mental health facility that will treat you so that you can be in the right state of mind to understand.

But anyway, yeah, even in our world "I didn't understand what I was doing" doesn't get you out of it. First, you're faced with "Prove it", and then when you do prove it, you still get punishment. Hell, people get punished for accidentally killing someone. It's called manslaughter. You can't say "I didn't mean to" and get out of punishment.

Yang, or someone else, is going to have to prove that someone made her hallucinate.