Charles Manson was a victim of the system?

On some real a$$ edgelord mess, I think the system wronged him. He was CLEARLY mentally ill but didn't fit the category of scitzephrenia or psychosis, so he was never diagnosed. Obviously he's dangerouse and was a homicidal maniac, but the key word is MANIAC. I DO NOT think he is fully responsible for his actions, and I think he should have been in a mental asylum instead of a prison. Putting a 5'2 mentally ill homeless guy in a fucking prison was fucked up. Also, I know i'm not the monster for feeling empathy, but ppl who paint people with black and whites brushes are

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Can anyone who does something like that be truly "normal", though? I mean, are there examples of mass murderers who are perfectly sane people who are 100% responsible for their actions? If they act calm and normal and don't rant and rave like Manson, one could just chalk that up to sociopathy, which is itself a mental problem.

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@AgapeLove Well yeah, he's batshit, no doubt, but that doesn't mean he bears no responsibility for what he did. I guess I'm somewhere in between the idea that mental illness is just an excuse and the Ancient Greek idea that everything you do is your responsibility no matter what (Hercules was driven mad by Hera into seeing his family as serpents and killed them in his delusional crazed state but when he came to and found out what he had done, he spent the rest of his life atoning for it. Even having a goddess make you crazy wasn't an excuse to them).

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@AgapeLove If they haven't actually killed anyone, they shouldn't be in prison. They should be locked up in a mental institution though if they're a threat to others.