You should be an Oxford don. Or a law professor.
You have articulated the M'Naughton rule. The insanity defense. Inability to tell right from wrong, or under mental compulsion that produces an "irresistible urge." Frodo and Gollum committed the same crime, but Frodo was under mental (or...
Look on the bright side. Pretty soon Justin will hand y'all over to China, and you won't have to worry about hearing people say things you disagree with!
As long as you agree with Beijing.
If you recollect the book, in the end Frodo did the same thing Gollum did: claimed the ring as his own.
Gollum got a lava bath, Frodo was celebrated and revered as a hero and went to eternal bliss in the closest thing Tolkein's world had to heaven.
What's fair about that?
Maybe Tolkein's god...
I'm old enough to remember when the clever Dicks would exercise the maximum extent of their wit by calling a male with long hair a "girl" in what the clueless assholes thought was a jocular way.
OK, I'll wait 'til then.
I've read the book (translated to English). It offers nothing that a dozen other fairy tales don't. One of the things it (and the others) does not offer is evidence.
Feel a mite sorry for the kids, but they gotta learn sometime that stupid, terrified old people are given to losing their damn minds.
At least he didn't shoot the kid.