More on Remorseless Capitol Stormer

Yesterday I noted that this Capitol stormer’s story has all kinds of interesting legal, philosophical, and political implications.  I then suggested readers check out this three-minute video:

She stormed the Capitol because the President of the United States told her to do that, and now, facing jail time, she expects a presidential pardon.

Another take on her legal position goes like this: If this goes to court, eventually, she’ll probably claim that she wasn’t thinking for herself about the crime she was committing.

This fails too, because human beings are expected to use reason.  Lions aren’t capable of choosing their ends (which is why it’s incorrect to call them “vicious”).  People, on the other hand, are required to.

This is a lesson we learned from Adolph Eichmann, who facilitated and managed the logistics involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. Eichmann was captured in 1960 and in a widely publicized trial, claimed, in essence, that he just wasn’t thinking.  For the reason discussed above, that didn’t work. Found guilty of war crimes, he was hanged in 1962.