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Yates never struck me as being particularly remorseful for having killed her five children. Granted, I have no children of my own. However, I feel confident that my reaction to having killed my children while I was temporarily insane would be very, very strong. If her mental problem was really a temporary condition related to her pregnancy, why does she look so composed in the court room?
Andrea Yates is a terrible human being and I sincerely hope she gets sentenced to life (or death) in this second trial.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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