Nietzsche's View on Mental Illness

According to Nietzsche, the controversy of whether or not someone who has a mental disorder or addiction should be tried as a normal person, someone after committing a crime would simply not exist because they were simply born weak, and they have no right to turn that weakness, their mental disability, into a strength. Somebody’s weakness whether they are born with it or the weakness develops over time should not be specially considered within the court system because it is not the Noble view of thinking, but instead nothing more than a Slavish view. 

It may be harsh, maybe even overly harsh, but special consideration should not be given to people who can’t help committing the crimes that they commit because that will only overtime weaken society. A crime is a crime whether committed out of strength or weakness and should be treated as such. It doesn’t matter if they committed the crime due to a chemical imbalance or because they went into some sort of drug induced rampage, the crime should be punished without the defense even remotely thinking that it should be possible to lighten the punishment for the crime because the criminal was all things considered mentally weak.

A society run purely under Nietzsche’s philosophy probably wouldn’t have a justice system, but that doesn’t mean that the justice system can’t take a page out of Nietzsche’s book and not allow people to profit off of their weaknesses, but it also probably wouldn’t let people profit off of their money or position because if they were caught then they obviously weren’t very great and deserve no leniency.