norsefire, i am guessing but i assume i spend more of my day looking into the psychological and social factors which effect people than you do and the more study i do the less i belive that:
a) we have a choice in anything
b) that "justice" works
c) that its the criminals fault
the more study i do the harder it is to see crime as anything other than a mental illness which needs treatment. you wouldnt blame someone suffering a sizure if they lost control of a car and ran someone down and you cant blame people for how there mind is built either.
even sociopaths are deserving of empathy because thats exactly what seperates us from them, the second we lose our empathy for ANYONE we become them. Besides which they are useful alive in a way they arnt dead and there is always the chance that we can find a cure
a) we have a choice in anything
b) that "justice" works
c) that its the criminals fault
the more study i do the harder it is to see crime as anything other than a mental illness which needs treatment. you wouldnt blame someone suffering a sizure if they lost control of a car and ran someone down and you cant blame people for how there mind is built either.
even sociopaths are deserving of empathy because thats exactly what seperates us from them, the second we lose our empathy for ANYONE we become them. Besides which they are useful alive in a way they arnt dead and there is always the chance that we can find a cure