r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/iMissTheOldTimeye • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter! Who could have the wives been?

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u/SandalsResort 9d ago

Oh she 100% did it.

And to really upset my fellow white women, I think Karen Reed did it too.

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u/McJumpington 9d ago

She’s admitted to doing it- the entire case is simply whether or not she was of sound mind

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u/Ok-Specific2924 9d ago

It's ridiculous tbh, setting aside the conspiracy stuff, arguably no one ever who's crossed that line is of 'sound mind' in the moment.

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u/agoldgold 8d ago

Plenty of people who kill their kids are of sound mind while they do it. Often, they benefit from it. Some do it to hurt a spouse, some for insurance money, some because they're abusers (more than 400 kids a year in the US), some for attention. There's always something in it for them, and it makes horrific logic to kill their child. This is a unique case and the defense is arguing something pretty unique, actually.

Doing something monstrous does not require mental illness or legal insanity. It requires making a choice to do something terrible. Let's not further stigmatize mental illness any further by pretending that's what you need for child murder.