Both can happen. But, in my world at least, your state of mind would certainly be taken into account while whatever authority it fell to passed judgement. Everything does not have to be wholly your fault or wholly not.

[He has struggled with black-and-white thinking, too; he's a machine. But he's supposed to be one who can understand things like nuance, and - well, he's had time, learning all the excuses for the Professor's actions.]