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Chris is perfectly capable of regret, but only while experiencing the consequences of that regret as the most immediate thing on his mind. Once the consequences end, and anything remotely pleasant happens, or at least some other stimulus takes his attention away from the consequences, the regret ends because Chris is purely a creature of the moment. He doesn't *forget* things necessarily, but his emotions and decision making processes are based entirely on what has his emotional attention. He is capable of learning from the past, and even planning for the future, but only if there isn't some more immediate reward or punishment taking priority.
Most people are like this, just not to this degree. Consider torture. While torturing someone can be bad for getting accurate information when you can't verify the answer, torture is *very* effective in getting someone to do something. e.g. Open this safe or we keep the torture going. The person can know full well that there are more horrible consequences coming later (say, there's nuclear launch codes in the safe), but the stimulus of the NOW can take precedence.
For Chris, he's going to fuck Barb if it feels good. He's going to tell shit to trolls that he knows he's been told not to (because opening up and feeling closer to a woman is what Chris craves the most). Couple this with his delusional coping mechanisms, where he will change his very view of reality to make it compatible with dealing with whatever the current stimulus is, and you'll see how regret and forethought get switched off.
As soon as Chris has time to think to himself (like say, being locked alone in a cell), there's no more immediate stimulus and the regret comes rushing back in and he's tortured by it. For most people, that regret serves as a warning, but Chris does not have the mental tools to have that regret guide his decisions, because the only time he can think rationally about that regret is when it's the only thing he's thinking about.
That's why saying "Chris knows right from wrong" is a stupid argument to condemn him. Most people know not to cheat on their wife, and we would tell them not to go out and try to cheat on their wife -- that's wrong. However if they suddenly woke up with a model sucking their dick we'd probably forgive them for not immediately shouting at her to stop, because the stimulus overwhelmed their judgement.
For Chris, *any* stimulus shuts off that ability. That's how his tard brain is broken. That includes delusions. Chris probably knows the delusions aren't real, but the positive stimulus of happy delusional thoughts shuts off his reasoning to disbelieve the illusion, the same way he can't disbelieve a troll even though you can tell from his words that somewhere deep in his brain there's a logical part silently screaming in vain at him to stop.
Chris is like that dog you just haven't been able train to not get in the garbage. You can punish or beat the dog all you want and the dog will have that clear doggie look of remorse, and when you're there to remind the dog to not get in the garbage, he won't. But you don't become a dog torturer, even when he "deserves" it, because it's just not how his doggie brain is wired. Chris is that kind of tard. There are many dogs that have better delayed gratification than Chris. You CAN train most dogs to not get in the garbage, but it sometimes requires immense amounts of time and effort.
Some people can get therapy to enhance their ability to control their impulsivity and procrastination (which are two sides of the same coin), but for someone like Chris it would require him to be institutionalized with constant training, for years, for it to have any effect. I don't think he's going to get that level of care in prison.
Unfortunately the American justice system right now is like that person who tortures their dog for getting in the garbage, thinking that they'll somehow "learn from their mistakes", and when that doesn't work declare the dog just "an evil dog".
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