Fictive Personae (Part One)
A recent post on the lovely and mysterious Nimiwey's blog regarding the unique modern phenomenon of involuntary internet imposture prompted me to regurgitate the following:The majority of American courts do not accept Multiple Personality Disorder as a defense to murder. Under the prevailing "Alter Approach," criminal intent of the secondary "alter" persona is sufficient to impute culpability to the defendant, regardless of the host persona’s awareness of the crime. The fact that the culpable persona is most likely involuntarily absent at trial does not prevent prosecution and punishment of the host persona.
posted by brainmarket @ 8:25 PM
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MPD mystifies me, I kinda scoff at it as a knee-jerk response. I don't know much about it, but I doubt the lack of one's culpability due to the action of one's persona. I'm glad courts don't allow it to be exculpatory, all the personalities should be in jail just in case under the same idea that you can prosecute two people for the same crime, although you are not sure which one perpetrated the actual crime.
Multiple personalities are often just a broken shard of the original singular personality at an extreme... so if you would punish one, punish them all to ensure you get the right person.
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