it’s our guy with a neurodevelopmental disorder due to fetal neurotoxicity, repeated childhood trauma, substance abuse, repeated brain injuries, and a recent stabbing in a similar situation. His history has resulted in this part of his brain being enlarged, this other part atrophied, this pathway virtually disconnected. And as a result, there’s, like, zero chance that he’ll make a prudent, self-regulated decision in those eleven seconds. And you’d have done the same thing if life had handed you that brain.
