Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-25176701-20151015205753/@comment-26247132-20151015213451

What did he deserve then? Rehabilitation in a Grounder Psychiatric hospital?

If you do something wrong regardless of the reasons, you deserve to suffer the consequences. Most countries have capital punishment of some form and it's not always a pleasant death. If you commit a crime in a foreign country, unless you're very rich, you're going to be punished in that foreign country by their laws.

The Grounder consequences was 18 deaths for 18 killed. Since Finn was the only person who killed all 18 of those people, it was on him to suffer 18 deaths. Torture? Perhaps but it was his own fault for committing 18 crimes of murder against the Grounders, therefore he deserved Grounder justice for those 18 crimes. It could also be considered torture to be locked in a windowless room your entire life.

And before anyone decides to rebuttal with that whole "vengeance" nonsense, Abby was wrong. Justice is 18 deaths for 18 deaths. Vengeance is if Lexa decided to wipe out ALL of the Sky People for what Finn did.

PTSD is still not an excuse for murder. You didn't see Murphy shooting up the place when Murphy was the one who had been tortured by the Grounders and had way more justification than Finn to go on a shooting spree. In fact, he was trying to stop Finn.

People need to take responsibilities for their own actions instead of finding a handy "diminished capacity" scapegoat because anyone can argue something traumatic at some point in their life caused PTSD. Hell, my own mom was diagnosed with PTSD (and no, she never when on a shooting spree). Using PTSD as an excuse (or even a cause) for his actions is actually very troubling and misrepresenting of PTSD sufferers. Most of them do not go on shooting rampages and those who do often have many other issues to exacerbate the situation. Sure, that can be the same as Finn's case, but either way, in the words of Jake Peralta: "cool motive; still murder."