I'm not entirely certain what the submitter said, but I believe it has something to do with crayfish and tote bags?

Well, on the bright side, there is now a label for ZOMG TOTES CRAY CRAY.

He believes in an invisible bearded man in the sky who watches everything you do. Sounds a bit insane to me.

Some people's brains simply don't work properly. This guy is one of them. I realize that we still need to cull such people from society, perhaps with capital punishment if that's what society likes. But don't redefine "insane" just to justify one's need for closure.

The guy is crazy. If you want to put down a mad dog, that is fine. But don't make it like he's not crazy.

rebelyell2006: I'm not entirely certain what the submitter said, but I believe it has something to do with crayfish and tote bags?

With a pledge of only $20 per month to your local public radio station, we'll send you a tote bag filled with crayfish that you can use to assault submitter until he or she can't type anymore.

Diogenes: Eyes look more soulless than crazy to me.

Not even that really. I think you're just noticing that he is expressionless. There's nothing particularly odd in that specific picture at all. In fact he looks pretty normal there. Anybody would look like that if they had the same lack of expression.

Can crazy really plan and execute such a terrible sequence of events so alarmingly well?

Doubtful.

He is not crazy, he knew what to expect when he did it, and he still executed his plans.

Cybernetic: Cray?

[www.computermuseum.li image 300x300]

That's the single-core model. The Cray Cray is here:

Legal standard for insanity is very stringent. As in not being hip to causation. Hard standard to meet.

Submitter, I hope that you are infertile so you can't pass on your stupid, stupid genes.

The legal definition of crazy has little to do with actually being crazy. Just because you know the difference between right and wrong doesn't mean you aren't crazy.

But when he opens his mouth....

I was going to say good, now he can get the death penalty. Then I remembered this is Norway with their progressive maximum sentence of 21 years. He's going to be a free man again before his hair is gray.

vodka: Diogenes: Eyes look more soulless than crazy to me.

Not even that really. I think you're just noticing that he is expressionless. There's nothing particularly odd in that specific picture at all. In fact he looks pretty normal there. Anybody would look like that if they had the same lack of expression.

this. He's expressionless, not even 1000yd stare going' on; it's just a crappy photo.

/kinda looks like CNN cropped it to make him look more menacing

signaljammer: Legal standard for insanity is very stringent. As in not being hip to causation. Hard standard to meet.

Ok. That is hilarious. +1 to you.

/I'm stealing this.

I think the photograph disturbs some people because for them is like staring into a mirror. They know deep in their souls that they are capable, nay, disposed, to similar acts of brutality. Your soul reeks of decaying garbage.

jabelar: The guy is crazy. If you want to put down a mad dog, that is fine. But don't make it like he's not crazy.

For him to be insane according the courts (and potentially not liable for his actions) he'd have to lack the capability to understand what he was doing (and that it was legally wrong).

He executed his plan exactingly, and while he held pretty much every extreme, wacky right-wing belief there is, he understood what was going on. He knew he was slaughtering children, and that it's not legal to do that. So he wasn't insane, and will actually be allowed to stand trial.

tyrajam: I was going to say good, now he can get the death penalty. Then I remembered this is Norway with their progressive maximum sentence of 21 years. He's going to be a free man again before his hair is gray.

wow, you can get that for holding a dime bag in The States

tyrajam: I was going to say good, now he can get the death penalty. Then I remembered this is Norway with their progressive maximum sentence of 21 years. He's going to be a free man again before his hair is gray.

They have mechanisms to keep people who commit crimes like his in jail indefinitely. I think he'll go before a review panel and they will determine whether he poses an ongoing threat, or something to that effect. They are a progressive society, but not so foolhardy.

Did submitter have an aneurysm?

Subby should be horsewhipped for using that stupid meme, mods too for giving it a green.

Murphyr: jabelar: The guy is crazy. If you want to put down a mad dog, that is fine. But don't make it like he's not crazy.

For him to be insane according the courts (and potentially not liable for his actions) he'd have to lack the capability to understand what he was doing (and that it was legally wrong).

He executed his plan exactingly, and while he held pretty much every extreme, wacky right-wing belief there is, he understood what was going on. He knew he was slaughtering children, and that it's not legal to do that. So he wasn't insane, and will actually be allowed to stand trial.

I see your point, but you'd have to be crazy to massacre a bunch of innocent people. What he did is insane. Hey, but that's, like, my opinion man.

jabelar: Some people's brains simply don't work properly. This guy is one of them. I realize that we still need to cull such people from society, perhaps with capital punishment if that's what society likes. But don't redefine "insane" just to justify one's need for closure.

The guy is crazy. If you want to put down a mad dog, that is fine. But don't make it like he's not crazy.

The legal definition of insanity is different from the clinical definition. Crazy or not, he knew what he was doing was wrong, and therefore does not meet the legal definition of insane.

jabelar: Some people's brains simply don't work properly. This guy is one of them. I realize that we still need to cull such people from society, perhaps with capital punishment if that's what society likes. But don't redefine "insane" just to justify one's need for closure.

The guy is crazy. If you want to put down a mad dog, that is fine. But don't make it like he's not crazy.

In legal terms 'insane' people are not truly culpable because they don't know what they are doing. It's not a redefinition as far as its legal meaning is concerned. He was aware of his conduct and its consequences so he is not 'insane' in the legal sense.

Nothing a bullet behind the ear can't fix.

AbbeySomeone: Subby should be horsewhipped for using that stupid meme, mods too for giving it a green.

I thought you said worshipped. ZOMG. LOL.

AcneVulgaris: Nothing a bullet behind the ear can't fix.

For the guy or subby?

tyrajam: I was going to say good, now he can get the death penalty. Then I remembered this is Norway with their progressive maximum sentence of 21 years. He's going to be a free man again before his hair is gray.

It looks as though he could be sentenced to 30 years if he's convicted of crimes against humanity, but even then he'd be getting out of jail before he's 63.

He might actually serve the full sentence, but he'll be a free man again in his lifetime. Hell, Varg Vikernes only served 16 years (mostly in a low-security prison) for burning down four churches and stabbing a bandmate to death, and only that long because he was caught driving a stolen car with a bunch of weapons and a fake passport after he failed to return to prison after being granted leave to visit his family halfway through his sentence.

Julieahni: Murphyr: jabelar: The guy is crazy. If you want to put down a mad dog, that is fine. But don't make it like he's not crazy.

For him to be insane according the courts (and potentially not liable for his actions) he'd have to lack the capability to understand what he was doing (and that it was legally wrong).

He executed his plan exactingly, and while he held pretty much every extreme, wacky right-wing belief there is, he understood what was going on. He knew he was slaughtering children, and that it's not legal to do that. So he wasn't insane, and will actually be allowed to stand trial.

I see your point, but you'd have to be crazy to massacre a bunch of innocent people. What he did is insane. Hey, but that's, like, my opinion man.

So every leader of America, EVER was crazy insane then?

Remember people, this is a generic republican.

kvinesknows: Can crazy really plan and execute such a terrible sequence of events so alarmingly well?

Of course. Crazy is not stupid.

I think the definition of sanity precludes premeditated mass murder. Doesn't mean he shouldn't be put away forever.

From TFA: The hearing was to determine whether to keep Breivik in jail until his trial in the spring.

Hmm, legal questions likely to be answered with "Hell yes".