Here’s the money quote:
Too many people involved in this case have proven themselves incapable of grasping a very elementary point: namely, that in a democracy, you don’t haul writers into court to be grilled about their political views. –Bruce Bawer
Good. Breiviks mental disorder was going to cause him to develop a paranoid obession no matter what, but the exact subject of that obsession was a matter of random chance.
It’s his illness that’s the cause, not the subject matter his illness caused him to become obsessed with.
David Berkowitz, The Son of Sam, thought his neighbors dog was commanding him to kill. Should the dog have been made to testify?