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I've already read a science fiction story or two about this scenario - a dangerously schizophrenic guy goes off his meds and then murders someone during mania.
by Pxtl 4y ago
I've already read a science fiction story or two about this scenario - a dangerously schizophrenic guy goes off his meds and then murders someone during mania. He gets charged with criminal negligence because he knew how dangerous he would be without his meds. One of Niven's short stories, he loved to write about the ethics of schizophrenia.
- bell-cot 4y agoFWIW: Larry Niven, "The Ethics of Madness", first published in Worlds of IF's April'67 issue. (And available on archive.org, if you can't yet rationalize buying dead-tree copies of all of Niven's Known Space stories.)
- phonon 4y agohttps://archive.org/details/1967-04_IF/page/n81/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1967-04_IF/page/n81/mode/2up