I’m actually not ‘mixing them up’, just pointing out that every actual real person is on an analog scale, nobody lives at the poles.
Having worked several years at DHFS in Wisconsin working with our CMO and others who deal with mental health for a living (I often had to do in-depth analytic work on the more complicated cases). There are plenty of examples of people who are far more screwed up than Castro was being useful members of society. . . and also plenty of examples of allegedly ‘better’ or ‘more functional’ people doing far more damage than he ever could have (Most of our recent American presidents, for example. . . the last two in particular).
It’s all the same thing, if people make bad decisions about other people, the should not be allowed to have influence or power over others. Nobody suggested he be just put back in society, rather I’d advise he have been taken somewhere far away from us (and the sort of person he could endanger) and be put in the hands of people who aren’t over-emotional fools at either end of the spectrum. If they can get something useful out of him, cool. Compared to how much it costs us to keep an average CEO in servants, I’m not going to worry about that.
Meanwhile, some of his real victims (his actual victims, their families, HIS family, and so on) might need to not be constantly reminded, and might need to look forward to a life where they are known as who they are rather than by an association with a cartoon villain.
