An offender's intellectual disability does not automatically reduce moral culpability or render the offender an inappropriate vehicle for general deterrence; a causal connection between the disability and the offending must be established before the disability can be taken into account in assessing objective seriousness. Where no such causal connection is established or contended for at sentence, the sentencing judge does not err in omitting to consider the disability when assessing objective seriousness.
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