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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Homicidal_Squirrel" data-source="post: 6215096" data-attributes="member: 6750031">These are actually another of the criticisms of BPS/BWS.Which is actually why this happens, or doesn't happen.Usually, the person claiming BPS kills the other person while the other person is vulnerable, like the sleeping nazi. It contradicts the idea that the battered person killed their abuser because of some "syndrome" or pathology. Basically, the idea is that all the years of abuse have caused a mental breakdown in the victim. They have "learned helplessness." So the victim, not thinking rationally, kills their tormentor because that is the only way they can be safe, or so they think. However, this abusers are for the most part killed when they are helpless or in some way vulnerable. You have to admit that it takes a certain clarity of mind to identify moments of vulnerability and act at that time to end the other person's life. In the case of child-molester-Nazi guy, I think it became clear to the prosecutor that even though the woman had broken the law, it was gong to be really hard for any juror to convict based on the dead gy being a nazi... who was building a bomb... to kill the President... and he was sexually attracted to children. I mean, Nazi alone? Yeah, she more than likely would have been convicted. Nazi and likes little girls? She could have tortured him for days before tossing him feet first into a wood-chipper and people would still find it hard to convicted her because they would have thought he deserved it.I get the feeling the defense hired a legal psychologist while the prosecutor decided the save a few bucks. They cold have avoided spending all that money on a trial and gotten the same results.</blockquote>

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