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I think you're implying that somehow one has comprehension only before, and empathy only after. Why can't you have either in either order?

• pdonis 6y ago
  > I think you're implying that somehow one has comprehension only before, and empathy only after. No, I'm just saying that to establish legal comprehension, you can't look at empathy, because they're two different things. They might go together--in normal, sane people they almost always will go together, both before and after--but you can't rely on it, since the people you are going to ask the question about in the first place--the people for whom you might have to evaluate a possible insanity defense--are precisely the people in whom you can't rely on them going together.