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by AnimalMuppet 641 days ago
I may be misunderstanding you, but taking your statement at face value:

Legally, no. The legal question of intent is exactly the question of what was going on in the mind of the person allegedly committing the crime.

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Right. But the judgement comes from a third party.

We as a society definitely judge peoples intent without knowledge into peoples mind, assumptions are made ( correctly or incorrectly ).